I would disagree with that last statement. After all, if a particular crown corporation needs to have an injection of $99 million, or if somebody else needs $1 billion too, where is that money going to come from? It's going to come from all taxpayers, including the huge group that doesn't have these pensions. That means less in terms of what they have available for saving for retirement. They're paying for these pensions.
Second, in terms of not taking away, you have to remember that the proposal that the CLC is making vis-à-vis the Canada pension plan is going to impact mostly small employers, the 75% of business units in the country that have less than five employees. The owners themselves don't have these public sector-type pensions, and they have no prospect, ever, of having such a pension plan.