Thank you, Madam Chair. Absolutely. It is not that I don't care about our aging population or seniors as a whole. The reality is that once we take care of our most marginalized people in society, once we can make sure that all low-income seniors have adequate housing, then we should be looking at expanding the income threshold. We have to start somewhere. A society is judged by how we treat our most marginalized populations. We have to keep that in consideration. When the economy is good or we have lots of money or we have dealt with all the low-income families who are needing services, then yes, we should be expanding. We have 22 priorities. Do I take the money out of one and put it into seniors who are making over $200,000 a year? That is a question that we have to ask. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Caroline Cochrane on Committee Motion 2-19(2): Concurrence Motion - Tabled Document 17-19(2): Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2019-2020, Carried
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Committee Motion 2-19(2): Concurrence Motion - Tabled Document 17-19(2): Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2019-2020, Carried
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