Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, I understand that. But is that not the touch point? Is that not the issue that seems to be what's causing grief? Or is that someone -- for example, I've heard stories that are on income support and then -- I know this doesn't qualify for a higher income but then would take a -- I won't say menial, but a small part-time job on the weekends, then lose the income support benefits, then left with no benefits at all. So -- and then same applies for someone who's making that -- you know, what is a living wage? I mean, there's way more and you can't really compare us obviously to the southern provinces because if you live in Inuvik and pay your $40 gigajoule for gas or if you're paying for the price of groceries and so on and so forth. So I'm just saying would that not alleviate some of the concern if we were to, and I understand that it's -- it ties in with other programs that have an income threshold but why do they all need to be the same? Why can't we look at this separately and increase that income threshold?
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