Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you all for your testimony today.
I have a fairly simple question for each of you.
I heard earlier a fair bit of commentary from a number of our colleagues, but in particular from Ms. Block, for whom I have great respect. It was repeated several times that this is a complex issue.
It actually isn't very complex, and amendments to the BIA and the CCAA are actually pretty simple. Changing priority status for a particular group of people is actually a relatively simple concept.
I would like in particular to ask because.... There are two issues. One is the larger pension issue, and the two of you have addressed that very effectively, Monsieur de Margerie. The long-term disability issue strikes us as being--not to show preference--an easier to manage piece of this.
As my colleague Mr. McCallum said earlier.... He did rise in the House today and ask a question. He prefaced it by saying that this should be a non-partisan issue. We have reached out to the government and to the opposition parties to ask if we can address.... At the very least, let's deal with the long-term disability piece.
What has the government said to each one of you as a reason for not acting right away, when we all know it is within our capability to do so? If I can just very briefly ask you, what reason have you been given?