Through you, Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate the hon. member for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell on his excellent remarks, on sharing his personal experience of parliamentary life, from his early days in a former life to his election to this Parliament, and to the provincial legislature in Queen's Park before that.
I would like to ask the hon. member for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell what he would reply to the Reform Party's claim that all the bill before us is designed to do is sweeten even more the members' retirement package.