Madam Speaker, I listened carefully to my colleague, who is feeling sorry for pensioners. He believes it might be important for them to have a little bit more money available and so on and so forth. I think he is being inconsistent.
Members will recall that a few years ago there was a surplus in the Canada Pension Plan, especially with regard to federal public servants. The government was very quick to make a grab for this surplus that could have been used to improve these people's pension plan.
I would ask the member whether he does not think it is somewhat inconsistent on his part to state that pensioners should be treated better, have a better pension plan, when at the time that the government could have done just that, it passed legislation to grab the surplus.
Will the new act guarantee that when there is a surplus in this fund, it will not be another case of the plan, the board or indirectly the government, taking the surplus?