Thank you.
I agree. I think any pension--CPP, RRSPs that are subsidized by a government tax-based structure--should be actually split and they get 50%. I think we can get to that. That would really resolve the issue of poverty--it wouldn't resolve it entirely, but it would certainly go a long way in helping.
I have a couple of other questions. Some of the other suggestions you were making have to do with the time period before women become seniors. You mentioned collecting CPP, maybe allowing them to work for a while, and RRSPs later.
We have talked in this committee about things like the Canada Pension Plan dropout rate, allowing them, so that they don't lose out on those years they're looking after a sick child or a relative. We do now have it for child-bearing, but we don't have it for caregiving--80% of which, of course, is done by women today--unless the government wants to pay for that and let the women be able to go back to work. That's one area.
The other is a stay-at-home contribution, figuring out a way to help women who do stay at home to make a contribution towards a pension for the future--an actual structure, not just allowing it to happen that if you have money, you do have a bit of an RRSP, and if you don't have money, too bad.