Well, Mr. Benson, you may not have had the opportunity to be here when Ms. Clark-Stewart suggested there is now a prima facie case, that she has legal opinions that suggest retroactivity could occur. It's in that context that I asked the question, because it seems to me that if.... I haven't even plumbed the idea of bankrupt companies in existing bankrupt companies, the impacts that would have should the legislation pass.
Perhaps I could ask the researchers at this point, through you, Chair, if they might be able to determine for us for the next meeting the suitability or practicality of a provincial statute, a Supreme Court decision, I believe, B.C. versus Imperial Tobacco, and its application to federal statutes. There may be a subtle difference.
Ms. Clark-Stewart, I'm not doing this to slight you, I'm just trying to get our own bearings straight on whether we can do this.
My final question is this. Nortel has failed. What does Ericsson do? What does Motorola do? What have they done for their pensions and for their pensioners?