Yes. I think it should be the same as it is for others who get these benefits after one year of their residency here. I'd like it to go to the extent that the moment he becomes a citizen, after three years, no condition of residency should be tagged on his back because he is coming from a particular country. I'd like to stress the point that when he has become a Canadian citizen, then the stamp of the previous country should not be on his back anymore, and he should not be discriminated against because of that. Now he is a Canadian citizen and a resident of Canada.
Why discriminate between two citizens, with one getting the whole array of old age security benefits and the others not getting them? What is the sense? Suppose I get citizenship now after completing all the formalities. Why should I wait for another five or six years? I'm a Canadian citizen. There should not be two classes of Canadian citizens. This is my submission.