I can provide you and the committee with those sources, by the way. I will tell you right off the top, it came from Hugh Mackenzie, it came from Professor Jack Mintz, in his published research, and it came from Professor Kevin Milligan at the University of British Columbia's Vancouver School of Economics, and that's just to name three. There are others who have done parallel research to verify that and to document it.
By the way, there is some debate. Some say it's 17%, and some say it's 13%, but it's somewhere between 13% and 20% of Canadians who are not yet retired and not yet pension ready. You can get into the definition of what pension ready means.
To answer your question, I think it's partly because some NGOs—and specifically CARP, and I've been on panels debating them—have raised this profile. It's a nice story, and historically it was true from the beginning of our country until the late 1960s. My late mother used to tell me all the time that the face of poverty in Canada was elderly. Today the face of poverty is not elders, it's young single mothers. It's not all single mothers, but about 20% of single mothers are poor. That's the face of poverty today. As I said, I've got the stats from StatsCan showing the wealth. The wealthiest cohort in this country are elders.