Well, I'd be happy to. One of my colleagues, Myron Thompson, the member for Wild Rose, made this point to me a while ago when he told me about someone he knew quite well, who he ran into in a food bank. He was there to make an announcement or show support of some kind, and she was there to get some groceries. He was quite astounded at this, because he knew this woman well, and his point was that she was very willing to work, but she couldn't really afford to because her benefits would be clawed back.
I've heard this from others, and others of you in this room have heard the same thing.
While it won't touch every senior, it certainly gives options to tens of thousands of seniors who want to work. Maybe it's because they just like the interaction with people at work or maybe it's because they want to earn some extra money. If you can earn up to $3,500 extra a year without it affecting your benefits, that's a lot of money to help people make ends meet. It also addresses, obviously, in many parts of the country, the issue of labour shortages. I know I've heard from a number of employers who are pretty excited about the prospect of this passing and becoming the law of the land, because they can see the possibility of employing a lot of people and of meeting some of the labour shortages that are being experienced in big swaths of the country.