Thank you to all our witnesses today. I have a couple of comments and a few questions.
Ms. Morris, I have two parents who are seniors. I have a dad who is 82 and a mom who is 72, and I am concerned about their incomes. They do all right, but my dad, at 82, still works; he is a carpenter still to this day. You said something about doubling the CPP. The current contribution—well, the most current I have is from 2012—is $127 billion per year. When you say to double the CPP contributions, what you are actually proposing, if you average about 20 million taxpayers, is an average of $6,350 increase per taxpayer per year.
It was just mentioned that we don't seem to understand what poverty is. I am concerned about Joe and Jane Taxpayer, who are already close to the line right now and who might be buying Kraft Dinner for the last week before their paycheque. How can they afford another $6,350 per year?