Madam Speaker, actually, I believe we do not know what this money is going to be used for. What we know, though, is that it will not be used to improve the lot of present and future public service pensioners, even though the surplus is the result of their work.
We are seeing fights of this kind in the private sector. Private sector workers are extremely concerned by what is happening in the federal government. There is a close relationship between this federal policy and the policy non-unionized companies or companies where the unions are not strong enough will keep on following. I am talking about the private sector of course.
This is what concerns me because we know that people who had well paid jobs will have a relatively comfortable pension. But there are a lot of workers who are close to retirement and who will not have a very high income.
In the private sector, it is even worse. Workers who have worked all their lives will have a very meagre income, which makes no sense when we know all the efforts they made.
The government's action cannot be disassociated from a signal given to managers of pension funds in the private sector.