Every day, we hear from our members who say they have to make a decision. They have to keep the roof over their house and buy some food, and after that, everything at the basic level becomes optional. That's a horrible circumstance to be in: making a decision between whether to heat your house or to eat nutritionally, or between whether to take your medications or be able to get some social connectivity by affording a transportation cost or even a small community membership to be involved in an active aging centre.
These are decisions no Canadian seniors should have to make, and they are decisions that our members are facing every day.