I just want some clarity on this issue, because it's a big one in my riding and I've heard a lot from people I represent.
I represent quite a few smaller indigenous communities. Most of the people who are seniors in those communities don't have government pensions and there usually aren't too many people who have corporations that provide pensions, so there's not a lot of income other than the GIS and old age security.
We have a lot of people who have lived their lives practising traditional pursuits: hunting, trapping, fishing, making snowshoes, making canoes, making all kinds of stuff. The school often wants them to come in to provide that information to the younger people, or youth groups or different agencies will ask them to do it. They'll give them a per diem or an honorarium. A lot of people who receive this find out at the end of the year when they get their income tax notices that they've collected money and now their pensions will be docked, will be a reduced amount.
Will this change it and allow them to work in the different facilities and collect a bit more money than they were getting historically?