One-size-fits-all benefits, passive income strategies and over-simplified disability concepts have failed, in Canada and across the developed world, to achieve real economic integration of adult citizens with disabilities.  Alternative strategies can improve economic inclusion while avoiding the perverse incentives and dependency traps associated with most current disability programs.  Solving problems in disability policy may also help governments address adequacy and incentive issues in broader income support programs, and may point to alternatives to the largely self-defeating Canadian welfare system.