No, he was laughing. I thought he...I missed something.
As for pensions, I went to work in a tire factory when I was a teenager. My neighbours worked in a tire factory. Their parents worked in a tire factory. Today, if you go to that community of Kitchener, you'll find whole neighbourhoods where people have decent pensions because they belonged to a defined benefit pension plan. I don't know what it's going to look like in 20 or 30 years from now, because the plant I worked in is gone. It's in Mexico. Many of those plants in Kitchener that built tires and made automotive parts are closed now.
Sixty-two per cent of people don't have a workplace pension, and more and more people are going to be in that situation. I'm sure you're well aware of the proposals put forward by the Canadian Labour Congress and others around increases to the CPP and the OAS. I would ask you to seriously consider this. I'm going to be quite frank. We need to think about this today for the people who are going to be impacted tomorrow. Every day that we don't act, the more pain people will face down the road.
Finally, I don't have to tell you about the need for us to put a major focus on creating good jobs that pay decent wages. As the president of the Ontario Federation of Labour, I can tell you that I am shocked at how little focus there has been on this for the last two years. Sure, I've spoken to many groups of politicians over the years, and I've spoken to business leaders, but I am at a loss to figure out why somebody in government doesn't say that this is something we've never seen before.
Put some people in a room and try to deal with this crisis, because it is going to change our province. It's going to change our country. I think it deserves attention like we've never seen before.
I'm sorry, but I have a document for you that is not here yet. I know you'll all be holding your breath waiting to read it.