The solution is very clear. What Jack Mintz said is the combination of, one, giving survivor benefits of 100% to any spouse who doesn't have a CPP in their own right, instead of having it reduced when the spouse dies and, two, increasing the GIS. He said that for about $5 billion a year in a $2-trillion economy, we can eliminate elder poverty in this country. There's the answer.
On November 1st, 2016. See this statement in context.