The Department of Finance in Canada has set up a retirement research working group chaired by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance, Ted Menzies, who is a member of this House. That working group had an experts day meeting on October 27. There is a group of Canadian experts chaired by Jack Mintz, a distinguished professor of public finance, which had deliberations, and there will be a conference call involving federal-provincial-territorial finance ministers next Friday.
The OECD is providing input into that discussion about pension reform in Canada to bring an international perspective and to show what other countries have been doing and the policy lessons that have been learned. I'm currently drafting a report on the international experience that I hope will be made public within the next couple of months. I believe this process will culminate in a meeting in Whitehorse on December 15 with the federal, provincial, and territorial finance minsters. I can also tell you that I've had meetings with Human Resources and Skills Development Canada today about that process.
As Ms. Smith mentioned, there is the concept of a pension summit, of a discussion or diagnosis of the issues with pensions policy in Canada. I know some people are very keen to push forward to reform proposals very rapidly, but at the moment the work is very much at the diagnosis stage, and the prescription stage, I'm sure, can begin in earnest next year.