Thank you, Chair.
I just want to say, in answer to Ms. Block's question, that the United States, Britain, Australia, and Japan have it in one form or another. In the Netherlands, the government itself backs their pension plans. There's a variety. And as the young lady has just indicated, Australia is still considered the fourth best country in the world to invest in, so they haven't been damaged by this at all.
On June 16, the NDP had an opposition day motion, which set out a road map, and in that motion we talked about a national pension insurance plan. I think it was Ms. Ducharme who said that we insure our cars, our homes, and us, so why not pensions? It's logical. We talked about the doubling of the CPP and investments in GIS and old age security. The reason I raise that is that the motion passed unanimously in the House. Now, mind you, it didn't change law, obviously, but it set out a road map as to where we should try to get to. At that time, the members were in agreement with it.
Ms. Ducharme, I'd like to put a question to you, but before I do, I'll interrupt myself.
To our Liberal colleagues here, the NDP will support Mr. Eggleton's bill. I put a note off to Judy Sgro to that effect earlier. We'd be most pleased to.
There are two CPP doubling plans out there. One is by the Liberals, which talks about a supplementary plan that attaches to CPP, which would require new administration and would be voluntary. The NDP has proposed that we increase the core assets of CPP, with no additional administration, but that it be mandatory. Which would be better?