Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I bet the Premier wishes he had assigned portfolios before this morning, but we are ready to go. We are ready to get into business here. I made a promise, Mr. Speaker, to a constituent during the campaign that at the first available opportunity I would stand up in this House and raise an issue with respect to housing and seniors' housing programs. Right now, if you are fortunate enough to live in social housing as a senior over 60, you pay no rent. It is not means tested. However, if I am a senior living in my own home and I need to access a repair program to make my house more affordable because I don’t have that, that program is means tested and to the point that if I need $15,000 or $20,000 for work done to my house as a senior, I have to agree to put a mortgage on my house in order to ensure the government’s investment in that house. The rationale is that I might get that $20,000 or $25,000 of work done to my house and I might sell it. But how do you reconcile that with the fact that the person that is getting free rent did sell their house and put the money in the bank? I would like to ask the Premier today, would he agree not to means test the free housing but, for heaven’s sakes, don’t means test the seniors' programs and penalize those who
are struggling in independent homes they own themselves. It has to be fair. This is highly discriminatory. Would you agree to make it fair across the board, no means test, no mortgage on those seniors' houses who own their own home who want to access seniors' programs? Thank you.
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