If you did go retroactive with this bill, what would happen is that the company would be held liable for its commitments to its employees; that the funds for their pensions would come out of the asset sales of the company. And it's a commitment of long standing that they made when those employees started working for them.
I worked forty-two and a half years for Nortel. I know I don't look it—everybody tells me I'm too young to have worked that long—but I did. I never expected, after forty-two and a half years, to be in this situation. I built my whole retirement based on the fact that I would have a retirement pension from Nortel.
The other thing that hits us is that we had a reduction in the amount of money we could put into an RRSP because of the pension adjustment that was put in place by the government in 1974. So we have a double whammy, because now we don't have a pension and we don't have RRSP money.
In this particular case, the onus should be on the company to pay for the commitments they made to their employees. Their employees committed to work hard for them, to work for long years for them. You'll find lots of people who have worked 40 and 45 years for the company, and we all worked hard.