Madam Speaker, I think we can all agree in the House that supporting seniors is an important initiative, and that is why this government has been working on a lot of different elements.
I do not know what the member opposite's profession might have been before he came to the House, but the problem I have is that it is easy to get up and say he wants to increase old age security by $110. In fact, the Bloc Québécois brought a motion in the 43rd Parliament to do just that. Unfortunately, what he does not explain is the actual cost of delivering that program, which would have been approximately $8 billion a year, year over year. This is the same member who also talks about increasing health transfers by $28 billion.
How does the member square how, within the fiscal framework, this is possible? Could he perhaps bring forward some ideas about how we are going to raise funds for 35 billion dollars' worth of initiatives added to the fiscal framework of the Government of Canada?