Mr. Speaker, I am not aware of the exact number but as far as I know most do not.
I am going to take the next few minutes to make a further response to the hon. member's intervention because I do have something I would like to share with him and with others in this House.
I was reading in the Globe and Mail yesterday a small article called ``Nuspeak'' from The Economist . It was a series of definitions that have come forward in the last several years. One word I had never heard before was disentitlementarianism which is a belief that entitlement programs should be dis-
mantled. I look on this gold-plated MP pension plan as one of those entitlement provisions that over time the House of Commons has given to their members.
I guess I would have to call myself a disentitlementarian because I will continue in this regard as far as a pension is concerned.
The constituents in my riding are furious. They continue to be furious about MP pension plans. In the townhall meeting I had last week it did not matter what the topic, it always came back to MP pensions. You could see the red start to rise above their collars. As I said before, voters, the electorate, will remember what has been said today. We have to address that and ignore their concerns at our peril.