Mr. Speaker, what will make a real difference in fighting food insecurity is ensuring that seniors have the money in their pockets that they need in order to be able to buy groceries and to buy toilet paper, coffee and these kinds of items over which the government has no control.
We are controlling what we can, and that is ensuring that seniors have the money they need in order to afford the essentials they need. That is also why we are ensuring that one million lower-income Canadians can access the benefits they are entitled to, with automatic tax filing.
We are ensuring that older Canadians get the money they need through the essentials benefit.