The Honourable Ralph Goodale, P.C., M.P.
Minister of Finance
21st Floor, East Tower, L'Esplanade Laurier
140 O'Connor Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0G5

The Honourable John McCallum, P.C., M.P.
Minister of National Revenue
7th Floor, Connaught Building
555 MacKenzie Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0L5

Dear Ministers:

On behalf of the members of the Technical Advisory Committee on Tax Measures for Persons with Disabilities, we would like to express our appreciation for the positive response to our report contained in Budget 2005. By acting on our recommendations, we believe that the Government has taken significant steps to improve tax fairness for persons with disabilities. The Government’s commitment to continue its efforts to improve the administration of disability-related tax measures is an important aspect of tax fairness for persons with disabilities.

With these tax improvements in place, we would like to reiterate that, going forward, additional funding for persons with disabilities should be directed to expenditure programs in order to target funding where the need is the greatest.

We thank you for the support you demonstrated throughout our mandate and for the opportunity to serve as co-chairs of this Committee.

Yours sincerely,

Sherri Torjman
Co-Chair