I want to thank everyone for being here, especially those who make the effort to speak in French, even if it is not their mother tongue.
First, I want to say to the people from Air Canada that you are probably and unfortunately an example of downloading by an employer, one that twice used the law to avoid paying its contributions, took a premium holiday and left you without a parachute—if I can say that.
Clearly, you are hoping to find a landing strip with the federal government, it being a former shareholder, or the state. Would it be possible to apply the solution in place in Quebec, which is to allow the pension board to take over the distressed pension plans of employers?
While you think about that, I have something to say to the officials from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. I am happy to hear you say that in 2010, your results are encouraging, because at -18.6 in 2009, we were part of the downward surge.
Obviously funding over a period of 75 years is quite prolonged. Moreover, you say in the annual report that it is a funded pension plan that is different from a fully funded plan.
Would you be able to manage funds such as Air Canada's, which are in the position of being downloaded, in the position of an air pocket—if you will permit me to use the same analogy? Would you be able to take over, the same as the RRQ and the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec?
Ms. Thompson?