As you noted, in February we made available to parliamentarians a substantial report on long-term demographics, a sustainability study similar to what's done in other countries. There are a lot of questions there that we can come back to and perhaps explain in more detail. I think first it's probably important for people to understand what's involved and the kinds of calculations we do in that type of exercise. They see that the aging demographic issue is not something that's decades away from us now. In fact that old age dependency ratio is going to rise dramatically in the next ten and twenty years. That's going to put a lot of pressure and reduction on our labour supply, which means the government is going to have less budgetary revenue as you go up to 2020, 2025, and 2030. That means expenditures for benefits for the elderly and the whole issue of our health care transfer system are going to be very important to discuss, and that discussion is coming. We know we are headed to that discussion in 2014, because that is when our big transfer programs are set to renew. We would be happy to come back and, based on our studies and the work we have done already, start to lay it out piece by piece.
On April 12th, 2010. See this statement in context.