Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here.
I want to talk to Professor Lagacé about the stereotyping. We were talking about the workforce, but it's really a societal thing. The financial institutions are preaching the gospel of freedom 55, and the unions are negotiating retirement ages further and further down. When I turned 55, I didn't think it was any different from being 54. It's a big issue. We're living longer, we're healthier, and that's putting pressure on company pension plans and on old age benefits that the government provides.
How can we change this attitude? It's not, as I say, an employer or a business attitude. It's more of a society attitude. How can we communicate that this whole gospel of having to stop and not do anything once you hit a certain age, 55 or 65, and that you're out into the pasture for the rest of your time...? We need to communicate to people that they really have an opportunity to work as long as they want and they are a valued part of society and the workforce.