Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Russell, I think you may be a little bit surprised, but the NDP supports a decrease in tax for SMEs. We have called for that.
We also certainly understand the problems of raising capital. We don't have the sources of capital in this country that they have in the U.S., for example.
But beyond that, I want to talk a moment about the pooled registered pension plan. I'm the pension critic for our party, and one of the concerns I have is that the risk level to that plan is the same as for an RRSP. If the market goes down, you take a pounding.
We've had a position now for a number of years to, as we say, double the CPP, but certainly to increase it. It's owned by Canadians; it's portable; it's national across the whole country. Doing that would take some pressure off the businessmen who cannot really start a pension plan for their workers.
What is your response to that?