Mr. Chair, you've no doubt seen it, because I know you are a very studious person and that you examined in advance the amendments that were sent to you; the weight of words is important. That's especially true in legislation.
For example, in subclause 16(1) of the bill, proposed subsection 11(4) reads as follows:
(4) The Minister may waive the requirement referred to in subsection 2 for an application for payment of a supplement for any month or months in a payment period if an application for payment of a supplement has been made in respect of any payment period before that payment.
These words often reappear. That's why I read this paragraph in full.
Our amendment consists in changing the word “may” to the word “shall”. The subsection would therefore read as follows:
(4) The Minister shall waive the requirement [...]
The purpose of that is to avoid repetition and to enable people to make changes to their applications only where there have been changes to their pensioner status.