The pension plan is a universal plan that begins at age 65, for both the Canada and Quebec pension plans. More than 50% of Canadians have only this income as their old age pension. So we believe that there should be no discrimination and that you should commit to making that increase at age 65.
Another question I have is about national standards. I must admit that you regularly lose us by insisting on national standards. Earlier, we even talked about training our support workers. This is completely under provincial jurisdiction, and in Quebec, the workers have diplomas and qualifications. I don't understand the federal government's insistence on imposing national standards in our long-term care and nursing homes, or CHSLDs, unless it is desperate to take that power and then impose conditions on how the provinces spend on health. Wouldn't it be better to support the repeated demands of the provinces, the premiers and the territories and increase health transfers to 35%?