Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, witnesses, for coming today.
I'm going to centre most of my questions in relation to CARP and Ms. Eng. We have had the opportunity to meet before in these same circumstances.
I've been a member of Parliament for just over seven years, and I've heard many times what seniors need and what they want. And of course we're concerned with the demographic and what's taking place just generally with the trend in Canada especially.
Now, you obviously are aware of the legislation today that eliminates the mandatory retirement age for federally regulated employees. You're aware, of course, of the pension splitting of the GIS top-up, which took somewhere in the neighbourhood of 680,000 seniors to be eligible for that $300 million in 2011 budget, the family caregiver tax credit, the personal exemption for income tax, which of course moved up to $10,382.... It's a big, worrisome problem, and I think we've responded well in the last five years. I see you nodding your head; that must mean we have.