CGA-Canada produced a report last year on an aging population and a lot of the problems that this country will face as a result of that. One of the elements of that report was that we have some very knowledgeable, skilled people in the workforce now who will be needed to help train the too-small labour population that's coming up. Yes, there are still areas that have mandatory retirement at 65. By forcing some of those very skilled people to retire at that age, we will likely run into difficulty transferring that knowledge and skill to the upcoming labour force.
On October 18th, 2006. See this statement in context.