Carer's allowance is a payment to people on low incomes who are looking after a person who needs support because of age, disability or illness (including mental illness).

Disbursement of the fund should be managed by the Canadian Mental Health Commission, the establishment of which was agreed to by all the Ministers of Health (with the exception of Quebec) and officially announced by the federal Minister of Health on 24 November 2005.[186] The Commission’s expertise on mental health policies and best practices and its arm’s-length relationship to government make it better placed than Health Canada to oversee the administration of the Transition Fund.

Irresponsibility, over-zealousness and failure to regulate on one side of the world will potentially hit the pockets of ordinary consumers everywhere.

5. Is of the opinion that the Commission must react to fulfil important requests made in Parliament's resolution accompanying the discharge decision in respect of the financial year 2005, which is not the case in the field of national declarations, where Parliament asked the Commission to submit to the Council before the end of 2007 a proposal for a national management declaration covering all Community funds under shared management; regrets the Commission's tacit acceptance of Member States' collective irresponsibility, with the exception of Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK, concerning financial management in the European Un ...[+++]ion;