I would just like to get some clarification, because it's a pretty wide-open motion. What dates and times are we scheduling for the meetings? Right now, according to the schedule, these meetings would occur in February. That does seem like a long time to shelve this, because I think we are looking towards February for our next open meetings.
It seems to me to be a little unfair to the process, if we're going to have a discussion about pensions. We've already had a pretty good debate here in the committee. I really don't believe the changes here alter this bill at all. We've had a really good discussion with witnesses who talked about unintended consequences, which are certainly not changed by the amendments. We had witnesses who talked about the good direction the government is going in general—and certainly members of all parties might have input into how we continue to move forward to strengthen things. We have also heard that this bill doesn't affect Nortel pensioners at all, and the amendments don't change that. There's no retroactivity.
I think we owe it to everybody involved to get on with a real debate about the issues, as opposed to simply.... I don't know what the endgame is here, but it seems that dragging this out to February isn't something that's going to accomplish anything productive at all.