The question is, if you want to, in effect, make people whole—whether it's Nortel or another company—you have to determine where that money is going to come from and who's going to pay for that. The money is not going to be invented out of thin air. If you're going to, in effect, repay into the plan the money that was lost through investments in equities and other instruments that have gone down in value, you have to figure out where that money is going to come from. The question is whether it is right that it come from, for example, the small-trades people who have debts with those companies or are owed money by those companies.
On November 16th, 2010. See this statement in context.