Mr. Speaker, unless the hon. member has been on holiday for the last hundred days he would know that the party which I am proud to represent and the government of the land are committed to a review of the pension the hon. member is talking about. A majority of us not just on the government side but on all sides of the House of Commons are sitting back and asking exactly how it works and how it compares to other industrialized nations of the world.
Hon. members take great pride in saying: "I cut my pay by 10 per cent". I do not know about that hon. member, but I serve between 70 hours and 80 hours a week for my constituency here and at home. With all the telephone calls and extra hours I put in-and I am taken away from my family, et cetera-I have to tell him that our job function here and the responsibility given to us to serve in the highest court of the land do not compare favourably-it is not even close-to someone in the private sector with that level of responsibility and serving that many hours in Ottawa and in the constituency. There is just no comparison. A 10 per cent cut on a pay that really does not compare is no big deal.