Sure.
I've had this debate with the director at the Rotman International Centre for Pension Management. He came to Ottawa and argued that we want to be number one, not number three or four, in the world. I said we were really quibbling when we are two-thirds below the OECD average, and the OECD are the 30 to 33 wealthiest countries in the world, out of 220 or so countries. We are really quibbling about whether we want to be number four or number one. The differences are trivial.
Much more importantly, it comes back down to social return on investment. Do we want to put more money where it's not needed, or do we want to put more money into poverty? Jack Mintz has talked about this in his op-eds, that there's a much bigger problem with single-parent poverty, single mothers, than there is with elders in Canada.
I'm worried, because, like Glen, I have children, and I've even used this comment about greedy baby boomers, and I'm very conscious as a person in the public sector.... And, with respect to Mr. Mulcair, I do believe the university is in the public sector. I have a very generous pension, and I don't think I should be getting more money.