The national program for seniors does help very much and has been very beneficial. As I said, any tax breaks are for middle- and higher-income seniors. They are not for the people whom we are most concerned about, the seniors with a lower income and in poverty, and I think the only thing that will help them is renewing the Old Age Security Act and bringing it up to the 21st century with the rest of us.
On October 2nd, 2006. See this statement in context.