Mr. Speaker, I wish to present a petition regarding automatic registration for the guaranteed income supplement. Most of the petitioners are members of the Saint-Damase branch of the FADOQ.
The federal government announced that it was launching a process to automatically register seniors for the GIS, but that process will not apply to everyone who is eligible. It will not apply until they reach the age of 65. This is an important federal government program because it provides low-income seniors who collect old age security with extra income.
For these reasons, the petitioners are calling on the government to extend automatic registration for the GIS to all seniors.