Madam Chair, picking up on the issue of GIS and the penalty that will be imposed upon senior citizens when, for an emergency medical need, for example, they have to cash out $10,000, a relatively small figure but huge to them in their needs, could the member comment on whether or not he is satisfied that the government has looked at all aspects of the needs of senior citizens and considered the fact that there are not two classes of seniors, those who pay taxes and those who do not pay taxes? There is quite a diversity and quite a range of senior citizens who have various needs.
A lower income senior citizen cashing out an RRIF may never know or understand that as a result of that decision, he or she is going to lose thousands of dollars in future years' income, because it will negatively affect his or her eligibility for GIS and whether or not he or she is eligible for a drug card.
With the hundreds of millions of dollars the federal government spends on advertising, why—