Thank you kindly.
Ms. Bliss, on Friday, I attended a dinner in my riding. Someone there told me, in a very neutral and not unkindly way, that an immigrant living next door was getting a bigger pension than her elderly father. I proceeded to ask her some questions and ascertained that the person she was talking about was, in fact, a refugee from eastern Europe who had come to Canada and whose refugee claim had just been accepted. The pension she was referring to was actually what the refugee was receiving in social assistance.
Would you say that lack of understanding is widespread? Could the proposed amendment allowing the provinces to eliminate the residency requirement give rise to that kind of lack of understanding?