I think Bill C-2 is optimistic, and maybe unfairly so.
Let's think about who needs what. On October 23, the Canada recovery benefit ended. On that same day, almost a million workers qualified for the Canada recovery benefit.
I was speaking to some of our workers' rights allies yesterday. They mentioned that over 600,000 workers are forced to work part-time, so they actually aren't getting by. Their bank accounts have not recovered yet. They're being left behind, and with every month, it gets worse. That's also what we're seeing with seniors: every month it gets worse.
If we look at the fact that these people have lost their GIS, now it's going to be five months if they don't change this. That's 15% of their yearly income gone, which they are being asked to continue to lose. If we think that some seniors in the first month may have had some very small savings, and people entering poverty often don't—