Thank you, Mr. Speaker. No, it would not mean that those people on social assistance will only pay $1 a year for rent. It is for seniors only. If a person is on social assistance, their rent is going to stay the same, regardless. It will be $32 a month. It is only after you make more than $1,800 a month, that your rent will go up. For those who make less than $1,800, the rent should decrease.

With the old scale, once you made over $450 a month, your rent jumped up automatically to 25 per cent of your gross income so the new scale is better for low-income people. Those people who will pay higher rents are those people who can afford to own their own homes and they will be encouraged to go into home ownership programs, rather than taking social housing stock needed for low-income people. Thank you.