For example, if we look at the history of the Canada Pension Plan, back in the early days of the plan, the number of female contributors was less than 50% of the number of male contributors. We're now up to a situation where there are equal numbers of male and female contributors, which means that somewhere down the road there's going to be... Well, in fact, the numbers are in the tables the clerk will give you. You'll see that by 2015, I think, the number of new retirement benefits under the Canada Pension Plan will be.... There will be just as many women getting new benefits as men. In fact, even now there are more women receiving CPP retirement benefits than there are men. And that's not because of the equal inflow; it's because women stay in receipt of retirement benefits longer than men do. But even the newly initiated benefits will equalize by around 2015.
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