A recent Ipsos poll said that 40% of current seniors or people who are just about to go into retirement believe that they are going to be the recipients of some of these benefits. That's the kind of communication disconnect that's happened in this country. It's being portrayed as though these are CPP benefits and everyone is going to be benefiting, not just the people who are just starting in the workforce, who will be able to accumulate it through their lifetimes.
Again, I'm going to say that all the research Ontario did suggests that in this very sluggish economy we have currently, now is not the time to introduce something like this, because it's going to affect businesses, small businesses especially, which will have to decide whether they're going to be giving their employees increases, or will be able to give them increases, or in some cases will even have to let people go because of the increased benefits.
I know you say that the numbers are modest, but when you compare them to the child benefit program that your government instituted, which, you told the country, was one of the biggest things that could ever happen, they're half the numbers of what you say are modest increases to CPP.