Mr. Speaker, the member was trying to tell us how justified members of Parliament are in receiving the compensation and how we are entitled to receive fair compensation.
Nobody denies fair compensation. Nobody denies a bank president, a janitor, a farmer, a parliamentarian just compensation. What we are talking about here is the pension plan that is uneven. It can reward one parliamentarian to a tremendous degree and another parliamentarian perhaps to a smaller degree and it is called fair compensation.
Not only that, the member talked about how members contribute and the government as the employer contributes. Therefore it is all out in the open as to how much it costs Canadian taxpayers for the pension plan.
Can the hon. member tell me how much over the last year the Government of Canada has contributed to the members of Parliament pension plan?