Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are refusing to increase pensions for seniors aged 65 to 74 on the pretext that they are too wealthy. It is despicable.
According to the Institut de la statistique du Québec, of the supposedly wealthy seniors the Liberals are talking about, one in five lives in housing they cannot afford. They have a median after-tax income of $28,000 a year, based on 2020 data. That is below what the Institut de recherche et d'informations socio-économique considers a livable income.
Why are the Liberals turning their backs on one million Quebec pensioners as though they were ultrawealthy?