Thank you very much.
I have a question for you, Mr. Milligan, on your comments around the guaranteed income supplement.
Again, we heard loud and clear that it's something that is so important, particularly the increase in the guaranteed income supplement for single seniors. I live in a rural riding, and I was explaining to a panel yesterday that often these seniors are women and often they've worked in the home. Their asset is their farmhouse or the home they're living in. That difference of almost $1,000 a year is significant.
The second part, as you mentioned, is with regard to the increase in threshold exemption for GIS. I was interested, because I think one of the things we heard loud and clear is that people may leave a job in retirement and then realize that retirement isn't exactly what they thought it was going to be. They want to work, but where is their incentive to do it and what will that mean to their family income? On the self-employment piece, I wonder if you could talk a bit about that, because a number of the folks who I know who have done that have gone into fields that they weren't employed in before. They're in part-time jobs, often those kinds of—I hate to use the expression—casual jobs that people need help with. Someone who comes and fixes things for you is an example.
Can you talk about the importance of the self-employment piece being added?