Our members fundamentally believe that the overall public sector pensions and compensation should follow what's in the private sector. I think when you look at similar positions, especially at the mid-level, there are certain advantages to working in the public sector over working in the private sector. One of the big areas is that of benefits, specifically pension benefits.
These changes were a great start, but we would like to see, and we'll need to push for, such things as looking at defined contribution plans, perhaps extending the retirement age to 65 for all government employees over time, similar to how the OAS changes are being implemented. The changes wouldn't necessarily impact people who are close to retirement now, but perhaps would impact those who are still maybe 15 to 20 years away from it instead of only affecting those who start in 2013. Those would be a couple of things.
We also believe things like the bridge benefit might be something to be looked at. Those are some of the things that are just not available in the private sector that perhaps need to be looked at a little more closely in the public sector.