Stéphane Lauzon at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On May 13th, 2021. See this statement in context.

May 13th, 2021 / 4:25 p.m.

Liberal

Stéphane Lauzon Liberal Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation, QC

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I want to thank Ms. Tamblyn Watts and Ms. Ferrier for being here today and for their testimony, which is very important to this committee.

Ms. Tamblyn Watts, you piqued my interest earlier when you spoke about the importance of organizations that could help seniors.

You know that we invested an additional $20 million in the new horizons for seniors program to establish projects to help seniors. We also budgeted $350 million for non-profit charitable organizations during the pandemic. Moreover, we allocated $109 million to the United Way of Canada, and we gave millions of dollars to food banks.

Do you think that we took the right steps?

What other steps could we take to help Canadian seniors through organizations?

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