Thank you very much, Chair, and thank you to our witnesses.
Mr. Catenaccio, I'll begin with you. Thank you very much, sir, for being here today and for the contributions you've made to Canada. My family also emigrated—not from Italy, but from Greece. The way you described your story, sir, reminded me somewhat of my own father's story. It means a lot that you're here today.
I'll ask you a general question. We have a lot of policies in this country and a lot of programs that really help to define Canada, like pensions, for example. At the same time, we unfortunately have politicians in Canada who, it seems, are trying to undermine things like the Canada pension plan.
I'll get to that in a second, but how important do you think it is for a democracy like Canada to have a pension system in the first place? How critical do you think that is?