Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My concern relates to the senior property tax exemption. A lot of seniors in my riding come to me when they receive this tax assessment in the mail. They react to it as if it is a bill and every year you have to walk them through the process of filling out an application to apply for the senior tax exemption. Is there a way that they could somehow streamline it so these people
are in the system then every year instead of having to apply for it? Is there any way that they can look at the possibility of finding a mechanism where you know that these individuals own their own homes and the property that you are talking about and these people have had this same residence for a number of years, the same address, the whole works. Is there a way so that they do not have to go through this burden every year? They have to run around, go to the hamlet, get them to sign a thing, get the Commissioner for Oaths to sign the document. For myself, I have had to deal with a lot of these cases in my riding where a lot of elders are upset and they figure that, you know, how come they keep getting these bills. They think it is a bill, but really they are exempt but they have to fill out this other documentation to go along with it. So, is there a way of somehow looking at that to see if we can streamline to make it easier on the elders?