Thank you, Madam Chair.
Certainly it will be a long time before I feel that I have expertise on or an understanding of this. It's a fairly complicated issue. To be honest, before I entered Parliament I had no idea that there even was something such as OAS or GIS. I had always heard the Canada Pension Plan was going to be broke so I had better not count on it.
So it has been actually quite pleasant to hear that not only do we have OAS and GIS for people who are really struggling, but also that the Canada Pension Plan isn't going to be broke. That was certainly good news and that is probably not out there. That really speaks to me. I consider myself to have some knowledge about a number of things, but it really talks to the idea of financial literacy. In this case, we've saved like mad, because I didn't think there was anything else there.
But I'd certainly like to talk a little about that particular issue and, really, how do we ensure people know and are thinking.... I'm not sure if I like the comment that we have to force people to save for retirement. I think people need to be making choices around those sorts of things.
So first of all, I'll open that up for some comments.