I would add that the proposed expanded universal plan, the expanded CPP, would save additional money in payouts from GIS, as it has done. Canada, right now, ranks among the lowest participants in the world for supplementary plans like we have, because we have the CPP and other provisions. It seems to me there's going to be a net saving to the taxpayer, and this could be used to enhance in the direction you're proposing.
As an alternative, I have no trouble looking at an idea that you would give some partial credits of some sort, some formula, to bona fide caregivers who are looking after aged parents or disabled family members, whatever. As I proposed in my notes to you, we also think we should extend the option of pension splitting to situations where we have a caregiver and a disabled person or an elderly person in the family. I don't think that would be an outrageous kind of proposal. I think we all have some degree of understanding and sympathy for people who are providing unpaid caregiving.