Finance committee  The pension advisory committee is made up of both employer and employee representatives. The employee representatives are nominated through the National Joint Council. There is one pensioners representative, as well.

Finance committee  The RCMP and the Canadian Forces are subject to the same rates as the public service. However, because they have different plan provisions, they will not reach a 50:50 cost sharing.

Finance committee  No. They will pay the same rates as the public service, but because their plan has different provisions, such as early retirement, their cost sharing ratio will not reach 50:50.

Finance committee  No, they are not.

Finance committee  I can't speak to the terms and conditions of the Canadian Forces.

Finance committee  No.

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  I'm sorry, I didn't hear the translations.

Finance committee  No, they do not.

Finance committee  No.

Finance committee  If members of the public service leave and they leave a vested interest in the plan—for example, if they leave a deferred annuity—and come back as employees after January 1, 2013, they will go under the old provisions, . However, if these employees had severed all ties with the government and took a transfer value, for example, then they would come under the new provisions of the plan.

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  It depends on the circumstances when they leave the pension plan. As I just explained, if employees were to leave with a vested interest—for example, they had 15 years of service and they decided to take a deferred annuity, so they've left an interest in the old plan—and they were to come back as employees, they would come under the old provisions of a retirement age of 60.