Thank you, Madam Chair.
On November 3, a representative of the Department of Finance testified. I asked that witness at the time whether the work that we were doing would be useful to them in the context of their process of amending pension plans and so on. Mr. Forbes' response was very eloquent on that point:
Certainly the consultations of this committee and any committee are important for informing the work the department does. We have just gone through a tri-annual review with the Canada Pension Plan and the next round won't be done for three years. We have a budget-making process ongoing, though, and these are issues that come to the attention of the department. So the work of this committee and any other committee is of course useful to us in how we help to advise the minister.
So a process is currently ongoing. For that reason, Madam Chair, I will vote against the motion because we've been told that would help the minister make his decision and that he will meet with the ministers of the other provinces in Yellowknife in December.