Yes, and the urgency argument is that so many pensioners were impacted with the Hallowe'en debacle. Secondly, this bill, it has now come to light, is going to vastly increase the taxes that pensioners who are members of pension plans are going to pay on their savings, at a time when we have an aging population and so many of the pension funds are underfunded.
On January 17th, 2007. See this statement in context.