Maybe I could start with the overall frame. What we're trying to achieve, both in this budget and more broadly, is to make sure every Canadian has a real and fair chance at success. The newly named Canada workers benefit is about encouraging people who aren't in the workforce, who are paid at a lower rate, to get into and stay in the workforce.
We know, first and foremost, that we need to get to the people who are actually in that situation, so we did two things this year. First we made sure that people who are eligible for the Canada workers benefit can automatically get it. We found that in many situations people who were filing their taxes on paper weren't getting access to the Canada workers benefit, so we put in place an approach to make sure that everyone could get access to it. That's critically important because we're dragging people into the system who wouldn't otherwise be there, providing them with encouragement to get into work and also an advantage when they're in work so they can stay there. Then we increased the amount. That provides slightly more income for people in lower-income jobs and it provides it farther out on the pay scale, so we hit a larger number of people with that workers benefit.
Again, the issue is that, in the face of a demographic challenge, we need to be thinking about how everyone can have access to the workforce. It's clearly the case that people at the lower end of the income scale are seeking work. This is an encouragement for them to do so, and it will help all of us because it will make the economy more successful if we find a way to get more people engaged in work. We think this is really one of those programs that help the people who are most challenged in our economy. By helping those individuals, we help everyone by making our economy more successful.