Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I came into politics about 10 years back with three main objectives. One was to secure retirement income for all seniors. Another was affordable housing. The third was to make sure that Canada remains at the forefront of the knowledge-based economy, so that the prosperity we enjoy today is available for future generations.
The topic of old age security is quite close to me. We have done quite a bit on that. We have reformed the CPP. When the CPP was first designed, way back, almost every employee had a workplace pension. They then had the CPP and their own personal savings. It was targeted to cover about 25% of their retirement income. With the reform we did for the CPP, we are now targeting that to go up to almost 35% of people's retirement income. We have taken quite a few measures over a period of time. We all know that we permanently increased the OAS by 10% for seniors over 75.
Mr. Casbarro, you deal with seniors. What is the number of seniors who live in poverty in Canada?