Mr. Chair, this comes in the wake of the debates that have been held here and in the House of Commons concerning the fact that there are still 128,000 persons listed in this country as being entitled to the Guaranteed Income Supplement, but who are not receiving it. They're not getting it because of their civic situation, I would say: either they aren't aware of it or they aren't able to claim it.
Of the measures that the department has told us it wants to implement, it seems to us this should be the first. When a person requests his first old age security pension cheque, we should be able to send him, with his first cheque, an information form concerning the Guaranteed Income Supplement.