The increase includes OAS and GIS. It's expected to be $48.4 billion in 2016-17, and that is an increase of $2.3 billion over the previous amount.
This is important to realize as well when we're talking about the main estimates and then we introduce a budget. Our budget made significant investments, for instance, in increasing the GIS for low-income seniors. A single senior on GIS will receive an additional $1,000 per year. This will have fiscal implications as well, and important ones, and it's an important investment.
Again, that is a discussion. I would like to have the budget and estimates process more closely aligned so that we could be speaking of the two in unison, because we're speaking in some cases of increases or decreases as a result of things that happened under the previous government or that don't have anything to do with what we're actually doing as a government.
The Syrian refugee question is something that in terms of estimates does relate to decisions we made as a government, or largely, in part, but a lot of these other questions relate to decisions made by the previous government. It's an important question. It's critically important to invest, particularly in our vulnerable seniors, and we will continue to do so.