Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I can appreciate that Mr. Turnbull doesn't want to be reminded of the many Canadians who have expressed outrage at this cynical attempt to secure pensions for soon-to-be-defeated Liberal and NDP MPs under the guise of an elections bill, but I want the voices of Canadians who have expressed their outrage to be heard, including some of those who wrote to me and provided their views on the matter to be read into the record.
In that regard, I will continue.
Another Canadian wrote to me and said:
It takes the average person 40+ years of working before they can get a company pension. Same amount if they want to get a decent cpp or oas pension.
2 million Canadians survive because they have other Canadians providing to the food bank so they can survive.
The government wants to change [the] election date so politicians can get an early pension. How many years have these politicians actually worked to get these pensions? 40 years I think not.
That's other than Louis Plamondon. That's my editorial to that. He has been here for 40 years, since before I was born in 1984.
He also said, “Do the right thing [and] leave the federal election as is and make those politicians earn their pensions like the rest of Canadians have to.”