Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I want to get back to a couple of things. One is what we heard a great deal from all of you today in support of the bill, which is that this helps those most in need. I'm having some difficulty with that, because it seems to suggest that the people who have the longest tenure are the ones who are most in need.
There are people, women, who are being left out. There are people who work part-time, others who have lost jobs; they are in and out of the workforce, or they are low income and what have you. There are immigrant people who don't qualify under the six....well, seven years below that you don't get anything, and getting jobs for them is very hard.
My question, from the social aspect and what have you, is to Ms. Yalnizyan. In terms of who needs it the most, I feel like I'm playing God here, picking and choosing who gets...and they're not necessarily those who need it the most.
The other thing is with respect to women. I was told by the minister that the gender analysis was not done on this bill. How do we know what the impact is with respect to women, who also are in high need, let alone choosing who needs it the most? I find that comment that is constantly being used quite difficult to take.