Mr. Speaker, I wish to thank my colleague from Laval—Les Îles for this excellent bill. Seniors who are already at the poverty line have come to me in my riding with the same issue. The issue is that their income in a following year is affected by their decisions in the previous year. They do not know that this is going to happen until the following year, so they cannot plan for it.
This is a simple but effective change that would change the lives of many seniors, and I wish to commend the member for his foresight in this bill.
It is a very small cost to any treasury. It is less than the cost of one senator per year.