First of all, it's more of an employment issue than a pension issue. Not hiring cadets as employees of the RCMP until they graduate was an RCMP decision taken in 1994. If the RCMP senior management decides to hire them as employees from the time they enter the training academy, then they're automatically covered under the pension plan because the pension plan applies to members of the RCMP.
In the absence of that kind of decision, we consulted with CRA on the income tax provisions and asked, for our members today who are not hired as employees, whether we could consider adding a provision to this bill to allow them to purchase it as a prior service event. It was very clear that one of the basic premises of the tax legislation for registered pension plans is that in order to have the service recognized as pensionable, the person must have been an employee. They don't have that employee status, so we're unable to even add it as a prior service event.