Mr. Speaker, I am pleased that we are able to talk about the cost of living, because it is true that there is a lot of financial insecurity. I may have said this before, but before I was a member of Parliament, I was a legal aid lawyer. I served the most vulnerable people. I am thinking of one of my clients, who was between 65 and 75, lived alone and was having a hard time paying her mortgage. I fought alongside her to make sure she did not lose her home and end up homeless. The problem was not that she did not want to pay her mortgage; it was that she did not have enough income. With the rising cost of living wreaking havoc on grocery prices, she did not have enough money left over.
I would like to know what my colleague thinks of our proposal to increase old age security for people aged 65 to 74.