I’m just going to follow up with the member for Carleton a question I raised earlier in debate. It concerns schedule 23, which—just having a closer look at it now—does indeed take away the obligation of a pension administrator to inform a pension plan member that they have the right to receive written copies and no compulsion to receive electronic copies. I’m just wondering, because I’m sure the member’s riding has pensioners in it, if you think those pensioners do indeed have the right to continue to receive their pension notices in paper form. And should they be compelled to take the electronic form?

Thanks to the member for Timiskaming–Cochrane, as always, for his extemporaneous abilities. That was great.

I have a question, though, about schedule 27 here, and it comes from a previous job I used to have as a pension trustee. What I learned from pension funds is that they really don’t like members getting paper notices. They really don’t like it, and they’re trying to push folks online—which is fair, to encourage them. But as I read this schedule, what it says is that it changes the provision that would require the administrator of a pension plan to tell people that they have the right to request non-electronic notices of their pension plan. That concerns me, because I know for a fact that there are a lot of people who read those pension statements who don’t have Internet access at their homes, who are elderly folks.

Why would this government choose to discriminate against their right to know that they have a right to get those paper copies? I’m interested in your reaction. I think people should be able to get information about their pension plans that they worked hard to receive in retirement by whatever means they choose.