Mr. Speaker, clearly too much has been paid into the public service pension plan because now there is a big surplus of $30 billion. The government is saying “Thank you very much, that is mine,” even though public servants themselves have paid into the plan, too much obviously since there is a surplus. Now this legislation is going to make the public service pay 30% more into the plan that they are already paying too much into. How can the government explain that?
In the House of Commons on April 26th, 1999. See this statement in context.