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Question period focused on seniors. Bloc Québécois members said recent changes to the New Horizons for Seniors program give community organizations too little time to register for a CRA business number, putting hundreds of projects at risk, and asked the government to delay the change. The Liberal minister said the change protects the program’s integrity, that it was announced a month in advance, that seniors’ groups support it, and that Service Canada is offering help with registration. Conservatives raised senior homelessness and the cost of living, saying pensioners are sleeping in restaurants and shelters are overcrowded, and asked the government to reverse its policies; Liberal ministers pointed to their increases to Old Age Security and the Guaranteed Income Supplement, housing construction, and what they described as the Conservatives’ voting record against those increases.Written by AI from the debate. Updated .

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