Annie Koutrakis

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to present petition e-6951 on behalf of 1,786 Canadians, including children of the veterans buried in the Last Post Fund's National Field of Honour, plus other descendants of Canada's war veterans and friends of the cemetery. Petitioners highlight the national significance of the historic military cemetery, Canada's largest, located in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, and express [more]

Is there anything that you would like to add, Ms. Kaluski?

Thank you to our witnesses for being here with us today and for sharing your very personal stories. It's very generous. I know it probably feels like you have to go through the whole process once again, but I hope you feel good knowing that finally this is going to get through and that parents and families are finally going to benefit by having a better experience. At this point, I want to thank [more]

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to our witnesses for being here today. Ms. Koop, it's very difficult for me, as a parent and also as a new grandparent, to hear your testimony. I can't even begin to imagine how difficult it must be for you to be here, and how generous it is of you to come here and educate all of us, first-hand, with this terrible tragedy and the deep emotions not only of a [more]

We heard testimony from witnesses previously. They said that there should be more wraparound support systems in place. Looking to your experience, what could those wraparound supports look like? What would have been nice for you to have access to that perhaps was not there at the time when you needed that help?

It's more from a societal standpoint, whether that's employers or whether that's supports that should be in place. They say it takes a village to raise a child. Do we also need a village to look after parents who tragically have to go through this experience, and what would that look like?

Ms. Lapointe Tremblay, could you say a few words about that?

I will ask this question to all of you, and if we run out of time, you can always send us your submission. I'm just wondering. Having looked at the bill are there any changes or improvements you see that we could have included in this bill?

Mr. Speaker, as I have already said, 7.7 million seniors are getting their benefits on time. The old benefits system was fragile. It was constantly out of service and it was expensive to maintain. Keeping that system would have been disastrous or would have led to a system failure in which no one would have received benefits. We are working on finding solutions.

Mr. Speaker, 7.7 million seniors are getting the right amount of benefits on time. Yesterday, we gave a briefing to all of the opposition members who wanted to participate. We told them about all of the technical problems. I am entirely at your disposal if you have any questions, if you have other problems or if you have cases that you want to discuss with me.

Thank you. Ms. Meunier, do you have any comments to add regarding the two questions I previously asked Ms. Hamill and Ms. Venditti? I think it would be helpful to hear your comments on the topics your research has covered, so that we can understand how we might make this bill even better for parents.