Madam Chair, I think the fact that Service Canada is not here is a bit of a disadvantage in the sense that I have done a great deal—as we all have, I guess, from our offices, but even before that—of work with the department. I can tell you that good intentions are great, but a lot of times old age security is late or is behind and things are delayed. I think what we're trying to do here is avoid that delay as much as possible, so that it's smooth.
But I think we're also saying that there's some onus on the part of Corrections Canada to inform OAS when an inmate is about to be released, and the release date, so they can start activating that file. And of course additional information required from the inmate would come from the inmate. But if somebody from OAS or somewhere would call and make sure the interview takes place, that's all that this is trying to do: ensure that the onus is there and not just “may” be happening, that's all.
That's how I read this and that's why I'm comfortable with it.