Mr. Speaker, I am thinking not of today's workers necessarily, but of future generations of workers.
Here is a government, a gang of politicians who, in their great wisdom and with all their rhetoric, are telling future generations that they will have to work harder, that they are not productive enough, that they, the politicians, will not pass on the benefits that our generation had, that it is over, because they themselves used them all up.
I am glad this member was the one to ask me this question, because he is young. The people of his generation are the ones who will have to work until the age of 67.
We also do not know what the future will look like, because the economic situation is fragile. It remains fragile around the world and in Canada, despite the rhetoric spewed by the Minister of Finance. Consider Europe: it could all fall apart from one day to the next. We do not know what our future generations will inherit.
I hope the social programs that we put in place and that we have fought for over the years will still exist. We will continue to fight to maintain them.