It is something that is fundamental to your belief system. If someone is paying their debt to society, should you be paying them on top?
Right here, within Canada, without having to even look abroad, eight of our provinces and territories already deny social assurance, social security benefits and such to incarcerated prisoners within their provincial and territorial judicial systems. If we look further abroad, to the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, they all have similar provisions at the national level. They too believe that society should not be supporting individuals by providing for their basic needs in terms of housing, shelter, and food, and then paying them on top of that through an old age security system that is designed to help those who are in need and who are looking to achieve a certain standard of living in their golden years. These are people who have contributed to our country; they have been law-abiding citizens. Yes, we're there to support them, but those who have violated our code of standards and have been convicted of that, no, we don't think so. Several other countries agree with us, as do most of the provinces and territories.