Well, look at the OAS system. You can get full OAS until you reach $60,000. So you are taking out of the taxpayer's pocket $487—let's use $500 as the general figure. You're giving every senior over the age of 65 in Canada, many of them living abroad, $500 until they reach $60,000. The clawback takes place at $60,000, and they can still continue to get some taxpayers' money until they make $100,000. Yet what about the GIS? At $14,800 they start clawing those poor people back.
On October 2nd, 2006. See this statement in context.