Mr. Speaker, our government is committed to supporting low income seniors.
We are proud of the fact that our actions have played a part in cutting the low income rate among Canada's seniors from 21% in 1980 to 5.8% in 2008, one of the lowest rates in the world. We have increased guaranteed income supplement benefits, cut taxes for seniors, introduced pension income splitting and invested in seniors' housing.
We will keep working hard to deliver for seniors as demonstrated in our budget yesterday.