Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for that question because it is an important issue and it is an irritant. I would not describe it as a trade irritant, but it certainly is an irritant. There are literally tens of thousands of people who should be entitled to a full pension as opposed to the frozen pensions that they receive.
I encourage the hon. member to be active in the Canada-U.K. parliamentary group because this is something that is regularly raised with our British colleagues. At this point, it cannot be said that our British colleagues or the British government are prepared to engage, and it is pretty hard to do any kind of negotiations or make any kind of progress without a dance partner. We do not have a dance partner, but I agree entirely with the hon. member's observation that this is grossly unfair to British pensioners.