Thanks for your testimony.
I'm a newcomer to this committee—it's temporary—so pardon me if my questions don't reflect previous discussions on this matter. I'm trying to understand the briefing note about clauses 371 to 373, which reads:
[...] a sponsored immigrant, their spouse or survivor would no longer receive Old Age Security benefits (the Guaranteed Income Supplement, the allowances to the spouse or common-law partner or survivor benefits) for the duration of the sponsorship, regardless of the number of years living in Canada.
The paragraph before that is that these allowances are benefits that are paid to the pensioners. It implies that they would have received that prior to these amendments and they are no longer receiving that.
Is that not correct?