In the Cliffs Mining case, at first, the employees, the retirees, were to have their pensions reduced by about 21%. We succeeded in recovering a few million dollars, but ultimately it was still short almost 9%.
As my colleague Mr. Lemieux said, retirees came to my office to tell me they were no longer able to buy medicine. Given that they had lost $400 or $500 a month, if they wanted to buy groceries, they could no longer buy medicine. It also has to be noted that they had lost their prescription drug insurance.
As parliamentarians, you have an opportunity to take a giant step forward to prevent all these human tragedies. We have found a fair and necessary balance; it is a matter of compromising. Everyone should approach this question with all possible goodwill and diligence so that we have...