Okay.
I did want to finish up.
I think it is a fair question to ask what is the rationale for the government acting with respect to OAS. I'll just read a quote here:
The major demographic transition that is underway in Canada will strain governments’ finances over the next several decades. During this time, population ageing will move an increasing share of the population out of their prime working-age years and into their retirement years. This will put downward pressure on revenues, as growth in economic activity, and therefore the tax base, slows. At the same time, ageing will put upward pressure on programs whose benefits are entirely or disproportionately realized by Canadians in older age groups, such as elderly benefits and health care.
That's from the “Fiscal Sustainability Report 2011” of the Parliamentary Budget Officer.
I don't have much time left, Mr. Jackson, and Mr. Clemens, but that, it seems to me, is a very strong rationale for why the federal government needed to act with respect to health care transfers and the OAS.
I don't know whether you have any comment on that.