I'm not sure if I fully understood the question through the translation, but I think you're asking how we deal with the kind of job situation that we have now, where people are losing jobs that have pension benefits attached to them and are gaining jobs that do not. In fact, the dynamic is to push people towards manufacturers--the car manufacturers that don't offer pension plans, for example. That creates a great instability in our economy and in our society. This is what we're facing now. Individuals who had hoped to have peaceful retirements are now being confronted with some great upheavals in their lives. This is one of the issues that a stable pension system across the country would help to prevent. That's probably one of the most important things we're doing here today, looking at how we prepare for our own future.
It was pointed out earlier that we worry about whether young people are going to be supportive of this. I can tell you right now that people get old very quickly in this kind of market, and when they're losing their jobs, they're looking at what kind of cushion they have. One of the areas we can help them with is to provide for their future.
Mr. Chair, if I may, I've been corrected in relation to a comment I made earlier, and I would like to clarify it. In relation to my answer to a question about how much more it would cost to have a universal pension plan, I was properly corrected by the former chief actuary of the CPP that we already pay 10% according to our CPP contributions, so the additional amounts would cause a further 10%, for a total of 19% to 20%. I didn't want to leave the impression that we would be adding another 20%.