I would be very surprised if that is the case.
For those who have more than six years of experience, they will continue to receive this gold plated pension for that period under the old regime. We have members of the front bench and the back bench on this side and on the other side who have to be accountable to the people they represent.
I will conclude with some statements on the challenges that we are facing. Canada is facing challenges like never before. Those challenges are in the areas of finance, socially and internationally. The challenges we have these days are extreme, unique and great.
This government and this place needs to walk with Canadians hand in hand. First it must connect with the reality that Canadians face day to day. The gulf between this place and Canadian people has widened vastly in the last 20 years.
For the government to try to cross that distance with a bridge that goes only a fraction of the way is no solution at all. It does nothing to reconcile the distance. Actually it puts the government at a very great risk. If the bridge between this place and the
Canadian people is not built in its entirety, the chasm between the two will swallow those who simply pretend to cross it.