My view would be more in line with the Trudeau government of 1977, when they brought in this measure and said they were doing away with the subsidy that flowed from the unpaid work in the home that served to penalize the person doing that unpaid work under the CPP. They saw that as an unfair subsidy from that person to Canadian society as a whole, so they saw fit to correct that subsidy through the CPP and they did so, and it has worked well for 40 years. I don't agree that having this mechanism is a subsidy. I would argue that, if we do away with this, we add a much more inequitable subsidy to the Canadian pension landscape.
On November 15th, 2016. See this statement in context.