Mr.

Speaker, like

many things we do as a government, there are things scattered across different departments. We talked about some of them here today. There’s the tax relief from MACA; there’s a fuel subsidy from Income Support. For the Housing Corp, it’s people paying no rent.

Clearly, the issue of aging in place and working to keep people in their own homes as long as we can is, in the long run, the most beneficial for us. While the Housing Corp has no specific plan, it’s clear, as we move into a business-planning process, that it’s an area that does need attention. There are things I hear constantly in my own constituency; people talk to you about the fuel subsidy, where they’re short by $10 or they’re just a little bit over the limit and they’re struggling to make ends meet with all the other high costs.

So I believe there are a number of things we could do — we do have a Minister for seniors — but I think there’s a need for us to look at aging in place and keeping people in their own homes as long as possible. We have some supports, but are we as coordinated as possible? I would say we could probably do better.