Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good morning witnesses.
Mr. Gagné, from the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, I do not believe that the workers you are talking about can afford to wait an entire generation before changes are made to both private and public pension plans.
You and Mr. Auclair have described an extremely critical situation for workers. Mr. Auclair gave us some very specific examples of workers who, after having given years of their lives, now run the risk of losing one-third of their retirement income. This is devastating.
Mr. Gagné, one of your recommendations is to create pension insurance. We, at the Finance Committee, hear all sorts of plans and proposals, but I believe that we should analyze all of these recommendations, put forward by different groups, to see how we need to improve pension plans in Quebec and Canada.
Do you have any other recommendations from the union or the FTQ, the Quebec workers union?