Mr. Speaker, I want to raise one area of concern. The pandemic has exposed issues related to gender and racialized Canadians. However, those issues were well known before the pandemic. They were well known by many people and are actually still employed in some of the institutions we have.
I will point really quickly to one of them: employment insurance. We know that some of our seniors have to supplement their income to get by because of rising costs. They will never get this through employment insurance because they do not make enough money.
Would the parliamentary secretary like to address this issue? The systemic contributions seniors have to make and will never collect are a tax on our seniors.