Thank you.
I would like to emphasize one point that always strikes me when I am having discussions with seniors. I am told that the Government of Quebec provides hearing-impaired seniors with a low-quality hearing aid, and for one ear only. Even if the necessary increases were provided, we are still dealing with survival level, as Ms. Tassé-Goodman said.
In his reaction to the budget, Gérald Fillion, a Radio-Canada reporter who specializes in the economy, talked about a study analyzing the situation in 50 or so countries. It shows that Canada is one of the worst countries in terms of replacement rates. That means the income that a person earns when retired in comparison to the income they earned when they were working. It's almost half, not even 51%. The average for the countries in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the OECD, is seven points higher and the average in the European Union is 63%.
We in the Bloc Québécois are proposing an increase of $110 per month for those aged 65 and older, simply to bring the average closer to that in the OECD.
Ms. Tassé-Goodman or Mr. Poirier-Monette, do you have any comments on those statistics?