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House Hansard - 184

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
April 25, 2023 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 184 - Apr/25/23
Mr. Adam van Koeverden
  • Apr/25/23 6:44:38 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-47 
Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her comments and mini-speech. There were a lot of questions in there. This government has done some amazing things over the past seven years. I am going to speak in English so that I can get my idea out because I have never actually said this in French before. There is no government in history that has done more to solve seniors poverty. When we took power in 2015, seniors poverty was at a totally unacceptable rate, something around 9% or 10%. Seniors as a cohort in Canada are now the least impoverished group socio-demographically. That is not to suggest that we ought not to do even more to support seniors, but we have done more than just cut seniors poverty in half in this country by investing in old age security, which my colleague erroneously pointed out has not been reinvested in. We have increased all sorts of funding to seniors-serving organizations, and seniors poverty is now at an all-time low. That does not mean that we should not continue to invest, but to suggest we have done nothing is false.
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