Mr. Speaker, being mindful of the earlier ruling that you made of 45 seconds, I will be very brief.
I just want to make the comment, after hearing this speech, that I guess the NDP is the only party in this House that really feels there is no problem with the Canada pension plan. It ignores the fact that changes were required to the Canada pension plan. The NDP thinks that just sitting back and hoping things will get better will deal with the challenges the plan is faced with.
When the NDP members continue to talk about the disability side of the benefit, they need to understand that as a reflection of what Canadians have said, 75% of the changes to CPP are on the financing side and 25% are on the benefit side. We went easy on the benefits and that is a reflection of what Canadians said throughout the consultation period.
We had a year and a half of consultations. Members from the CFL, United Steelworkers, CUPE, CAW, Canadian Labour Congress, all made interventions with respect to the consultations. Unions had representation.