Thank you very much for your question.
Mr. Chair, through you, let me first and foremost reiterate to this committee and to seniors who are listening that my priority and our government's priority from the very beginning, since we took office back in 2015, has been to support seniors. We have done a number of things that I'm extremely proud of to support seniors from coast to coast to coast.
Mr. Chair, I'd like to go back and perhaps get into a little bit of detail on the measures we have taken forward.
As the honourable member knows, one of the very first things we as a government did was to restore the age of eligibility for old age security and the guaranteed income supplement back to 65. We then enhanced the guaranteed income supplement, which has helped over 900,000 people, some of the most vulnerable seniors, the majority of whom are single women, and that has lifted 45,000 seniors out of poverty. We've also enhanced the Canada pension plan, which will actually help future retirees, because we need to make sure we're also taking care of those who will be retiring soon.
It's also important to recognize, Mr. Chair, that—