Mr. Speaker, our Income Support Program is designed as a last resort program to help people meet their basic needs. We do allow people a lot of latitude on unearned income. In fact, there is a whole number of areas where we do not take back or deduct unearned income.
We also allow a single person up to $200 in earned income and a family up to $400 in earned income. Those are meant to encourage people to go back to work as well as to give them enough to meet their basic needs. If, in some cases, we want to allow people to keep all of those earnings, then we are really talking about a guaranteed annual income program, which is philosophically quite different than what we have now.
As I said before, if families are having difficulties, then I would suggest they go back and get a reassessment of their situation. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.