Mr. Speaker, I am being told about direct support for seniors, but I am going to talk about other cuts in assistance to seniors.
All over Quebec, messages are being received from new GIS beneficiaries who, in the spring, applied for the $200 COVID‑19 payment. They applied in time, but, since then, the silence has been deafening. The Canada Revenue Agency takes months to process files. The result is that, two months later, seniors have been denied the $200 they were promised with the excuse that they missed the deadline. The government is cutting money from the most disadvantaged seniors because of pure incompetence.
What is it going to do to correct the situation?