Industry committee  Certainly there will be opportunity for amendments to the bill. I believe that the proposer of the bill is open to amendments. Secondly, our association will be having a formal meeting of our board on November 22. We will take a good look at your proposed changes and we will cert

Industry committee  Certainly in my case it won't.

Industry committee  If I may, first of all, when we asked our governments to bring forward legislation to improve the situation, we asked them to do it in a way that would not do harm. And while we support very much what has happened at the federal level, there has been harm done at the federal leve

Industry committee  I'm not fully cognizant of all the details, but in the United States there are certain aspects of pension plans that are guaranteed by the government, so that if certain types of pension plans go into a bankruptcy situation, the federal government in fact picks up the cost.

Industry committee  Okay.

Industry committee  I'll endeavour to do that. I'm here today as the former president of the Hamilton Specialty Bar Slater Steel Salaried Pensioners Association to talk about Bill C-501. I want everybody in this room to be fully aware that nobody from the Slater Steel group is going to get any ben