Finance committee  Under the extraordinary financing framework that you announced, you can issue letters of credit for pension.

Finance committee  We don't have that information, but it would be a formula. You're entitled to collect based on how long you've served, and the age and service combined when you retire will determine the benefit you get for the rest of your life.

Finance committee  We can get them for you if you want them.

Finance committee  If I had my way it would be compulsory, and we'd make it a cost of doing business. I think the employers should pay the cost of the pension plans for their workforce. The workers give the corporations their life. Executives who give what they say is their all to those corporation

Finance committee  Frankly, I don't think Canadians view CPP contributions as a tax, to date. I wouldn't advise that discussion and debate. Canadians view the CPP as a very secure instrument of security for them. They rely on it. It's administered very efficiently at the lowest cost of all pension

Finance committee  Certainly we've considered it. Let's remember, sir, that the people we represent enjoy pension security for the most part. Most of our members have adequate pension plans that will deliver a pretty good pension to them. So when we're talking about these issues, we're talking abou

Finance committee  We talk to our members regularly and we meet every three years. Our affiliates have that policy. We would prefer that the money be used for other purposes than those minuscule tax deductions that no one feels on their cheque.

Finance committee  Well, it's everyone who is not in a union.

Finance committee  It would include all the executives.... Everybody, yes.

Finance committee  That's someone who doesn't get EI. It's everyone who is unemployed who doesn't get EI.

Finance committee  Our numbers are for all people who are unemployed—who work for wages, become unemployed, and can't get EI. Of those people who become unemployed, I think 41% get EI benefits, and the rest don't.

Finance committee  No.

Finance committee  No.

Finance committee  I said people who made EI contributions off their cheques and then are not entitled to get unemployment insurance.

Finance committee  No, 41% do get EI.