With regard to the guaranteed income supplement, as you know, it has made a good contribution to reducing the low-income rate of seniors, many of whom are women. Recently—I believe it was in 1995—there was an increase of $18 a month for single seniors and $29 a month for couples. I believe the amount it was going to cost was in excess of $4 billion over five years. So those very modest increases would contribute to that.
With regard to the survivor benefits moving from 50% to 70%, I don't know what the fiscal impact of that is, but I do think it needs to be taken into the context of increasing labour market participation of women and whether or not in the future, when more women have contributed to the CPP and would be eligible themselves for actual benefits, the need would still be present, given the change of composition of the senior women population, many of whom in the future will be less likely to have been married moms who stayed home and looked after the family, and so on. But we could certainly endeavour to find out.