Mahsi, Mr. Chair, if I can speak to this. On this motion before us, we did talk about it within my department.
I guess the question would be: someone who works at the Northern Store and cares for a grandma — how many hours? That’s also taken into consideration. We certainly will look into that as well. But at the same time, there are individuals who are making $97,000 a year and caring for their elders for a couple of hours a day. Where do you stop? Where do you draw the line? It does get complicated. We do assess elders with a fuel subsidy, the Homeownership program. At the same time, there are individuals out there who are living for free. Some are working at the mine, maybe making $150,000 a year.
So it does draw some concern to our department, as well, because we have to protect the elders. It’s also based on the medical recommendations that an elder needs to be cared for. We do follow up on that with our department, but how far do we go with that? So those have been taken into consideration. I just thought I’d speak to that from the department’s perspective. Mahsi.