Corey Tochor at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On May 25th, 2021. See this statement in context.

May 25th, 2021 / 4:45 p.m.

Conservative

Corey Tochor Conservative Saskatoon—University, SK

Thank you very much.

Minister, the seniors I have been meeting with tell a different story. You brag about the increase of over $1,000 for last year, over the different buckets of money that you made one-time payments for, but the seniors I've been talking to read reports in the news about 40,000 15-year-olds getting approved for CERB at $2,000 a month—not yearly but monthly. They hear about over 92,000 16-year-olds who have been approved and about 17-year-olds living at home.

There were 184,000 kids getting CERB last year. Do you think that's fair?

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