Thank you for that, Mr. Chair, I really appreciate your comment, frankly, because I'm a little disturbed at the comment that was just made by the parliamentary secretary, which implied that the outreach didn't happen under previous governments. Not only our government before that, but successive governments over the last 20 years have had nothing but praise for CRA in terms of their outreach to make sure that people actually are informed. Sometimes they are proactive in the sense that they send notices to people to ask if they know they could get this additional claim, so thank you for that hard work. It's not diametrically opposed, as he characterized it, to what this government is going to move forward with.
I want to make that point because it is upsetting that he would accuse you and previous governments of not reaching out to help constituents. In my office I help over 300 needy people get their tax returns done and many other MPs do that as a service to reach out to help people get the kinds of credits they deserve. I have one simple question and that is to the minister.
Can you guarantee that the rollout of all the changes that are going to be made to the tax credit system, some removed from the previous system and some being completely taken away, the child arts tax credit and such, to move to the new system will be seamless and will you guarantee that people will not have interruptions to the receiving of their benefits?