I want to tell you immediately that, even if the figures do not exist, you have the right to ask the government to calculate them. Statistics Canada is controlled by the government. If the old-age pensions have to be adjusted on the basis of real needs, it is up to the government to ask Statistics Canada to produce the required figures.
Thirdly, I would like to talk about the guaranteed income supplement which you referred to in your presentation. In particular, you talked about refunding the amounts due to people who have been shortchanged by the GIS. Indeed, some people who had been entitled to this supplement for many years did not claim it, either because they did not know about it, or because they lived in isolated areas, without external contacts, or because the forms were too complicated. We have launched a big campaign to let people know that they can claim those amounts which they are entitled to. We have also put pressure on the government to simplify the forms and to make the program more accessible. This has been done.
However, now that the time has come to pay people who had been entitled to this supplements for many years, the government has decided to make the payments retroactive for 11 months. This limit had been set up by the Liberals and now the Conservatives, who had promised full retroactivity, are going back on their promise. Do you find that acceptable?
If it was seniors who owed money to the government, because they had not paid their income tax for five years, for example, the government would certainly ask them to pay back with interest for those five years.