Madam Speaker, our intentions are very clear. Our intentions are to save Canada's pension plan for the foreseeable future.
It is interesting to hear my colleague opposite, and indeed the NDP. The common refrain is that there is always lots of money and that is all we spend. That is the NDP's solution to everything.
She talked about experts. Let me quote a real expert. David Dodge, the former Governor of the Bank of Canada, said this:
...we're at least 15 years late in getting started in raising that age of entitlement for CPP, OAS and the normal expectation as to how long people would work in the private sector with private-sector pension plans. That's absolutely clear, and because labour participation rates will start to fall later this decade, we're up against the wall.
This is not a partisan comment. This is not a Conservative pundit. This is the former Governor of the Bank of Canada—actually appointed by the previous government, I might add—who is saying we are actually late in moving on this issue and we need to do something now.
Would the member comment on the comments of the former Governor of the Bank of Canada?