I'm going to go back to past years. As you said so well, Ms. Scotti, we discovered in 2001 that 300,000 individuals were entitled to the Guaranteed Income Supplement but were not claiming it. In Quebec, there were 68,000 persons. If we were able to state the number of persons, that means that we knew who they were.
As you'll no doubt remember, the Bloc québécois, more particularly the member for Saint-Maurice—Champlain, Mr. Gagnon, traced 42,000 of those individuals. That represented the sum of $95 million, which is enormous. During all those years, those people were entitled to this supplement, but were not getting it.
Why weren't they getting it, whereas the Income Tax Act enabled us to reach them and to pay them their Guaranteed Income Supplement?