Thank you.
I don't know income tax law and I'm not too sure about all of that, but if there's a way that honorariums can be seen not as income for people who are over the age of 60 or 65, or if there were some way that it could be reported....
What I have found with the elders is that they don't mind paying the tax on that, but what they do mind is that it's considered as income. For example, with the guaranteed income supplement, if you receive over $20,000—$20,000 is not a lot of money—as soon as you go over that, it's taken off from the following year. While they receive the honorarium that year, it means that in the following year they receive less money. They're being penalized for helping out and for wanting to revitalize their language. There has to be something in place so that our elders are not penalized.