Thank you.
I take the comments and I thank you for them.
Right now, in terms of the overpayments, because the Canada Pension Plan and old age security benefits are over a person's lifetime, you can have a situation where there would be an overpayment, for example, that would take place over a number of years.
In other words, let's say that someone's marital status had changed for low-income benefits and let's say the department never found out about that situation. You don't want to create a situation of undue hardship on the part of a senior by having only a limited period of time in which to recover a potential overpayment. The principle I think is one whereby you want to extend the period for a length of time, to allow a person to provide only a certain level of their income per month. That was the rationale for extending it to “recoverable at any time”. Otherwise, you may find yourself in a situation where the tendency would be to recover a larger share of the overpayment and a higher share of a senior's income.