phasing in a guaranteed minimum income scheme and providing universal health care, ensuring that the effort required from everyone is proportionate to their income, targeting savings in areas which do not directly affect the wallets of ordinary citizens - such as reduced defence expenditure, or by addressing inefficiencies and eliminating privileges or abuses in many areas of public spending, challenging vested interests, such as phasing out favourable tax treatments, or exemptions, e.g. for some islands on VAT rates, or heavy subsidies supporting the role of the social partners and the modernisation of the collective bargaining system f ...[+++]ighting fraud, corruption and evasion and supporting a more transparent and efficient public administration, including through moving towards a more independent tax administration, the reorganisation of ministries and the introduction of a better link between salaries and job responsibilities.

phasing in a guaranteed minimum income scheme and providing universal health care, ensuring that the effort required from everyone is proportionate to their income, targeting savings in areas which do not directly affect the wallets of ordinary citizens, such as reduced defence expenditure, or by addressing inefficiencies in many areas of public spending, challenging vested interests, such as phasing out favourable tax treatments for ship-owners or farmers, or a myriad of exemptions, e.g. for some islands on VAT rates, or of unjustified subsidies, supporting the role of the social partners and the modernisation of the collective bargaini ...[+++]ng system, fighting corruption, tax evasion and undeclared work, supporting a more transparent and efficient public administration, including through moving towards a more independent tax administration, the reorganisation of ministries and the introduction of a better link between salaries and job responsibilities.

Of course, tax-assisted private savings works hand in hand with the other pillars of Canada's retirement income support system. That includes the old age security, OAS, and guaranteed income supplement, GIS, programs, which provide a basic minimum income guarantee for seniors; and the Canada pension plan, CPP, and the Quebec pension plan, QPP.

The old age security and guaranteed income supplement programs, along with the Canada and Quebec pension plans, are considered to be the pillars of that system, ensuring a minimum level of income in retirement for Canadian seniors.

When discussing these different labour market transitions, the following types of benefit schemes are considered: (i) unemployment insurance and unemployment assistance; (ii) minimum income guarantee and other forms of social assistance (including housing benefits); (iii) employment-conditional benefits and other similar provisions; (iv) support for families and parents (family benefits, maternity, paternity and parental leave schemes, child-care benefits and provision, elderly care and care for disabled people); (v) early retirement; and (vi) support for sickness, invalidity and work-related injuries.

Does he not admit that he intends to use this new so-called regular income program as a first step to introduce a guaranteed minimum income program throughout Canada and then to force the hand of reluctant provinces?