Mr. Speaker, if the hon. member has been waiting since 1991, she might want to wait a few days longer.
I understand the concern of the hon. member. We all share a very deep interest in ensuring that Canadians in retirement have effective and sustainable pension programs. The government is very committed to it because it authored the major old age pension and income security programs. That is why in the last budget we underlined once again our strong commitment to maintain and strengthen those programs and to enhance them.
To prepare ourselves for that, the Minister of Finance in working with my department is preparing a paper that will outline for Canadians the choices and options we will have to face in the Canada pension plan in order to ensure that we can sustain its financing over the next years to meet the very large growth in the number of Canadians that will be retiring. We are working on that as well as we can. When the paper is right and ready we will present it, certainly to the hon. member. We will also present it to every other Canadian.