First of all, for older workers, it's about flexible retirement. In Quebec, we see people who do this at the same time. At the federal level, we changed the Income Tax Act to allow people to accumulate their pensions and continue working at the same time. It's something that we recommended in 2004, and it's working. The idea of having this targeted policy could be perceived as being discriminatory because
That can be perceived as discriminatory. The OECD is wondering why—seeing as how flexibility is something many groups want—the issue is not considered in terms of a partial disability. Why do people have to be disabled to have access to flexibility? Why not apply the idea of flexibility both to disabled workers and older workers? That way, the focus would not be placed specifically on older workers as a group.
The same notion applies to training, more or less. That's still being debated. Let's take the example of Nordic countries. They have successfully established a relationship between employment insurance and access to training. Those countries have a centralized industrial relations system where the employer, the government and the union are all at the same negotiation table. The policies and the experience are all there. We have a great deal to learn from those countries when it comes to policies. However, we must be willing to review our policies.
I will stop there.