I'll try to be very quick.
I'm sorry, but I'm having some difficulty because we're talking about women's economic security, which means young and older women.
Mr. Braniff, you talk about pension splitting as primarily a women's issue, and then you go on. I have difficulty accepting that. As you stated, when someone is deceased or in many other cases as well, the pension is depleted, it disappears, or it's less. Women are left with less even if they've saved some money along the way. If this was years later, depending on your income, you could save to varying degrees, but it does not give income security to women.
There are divorced women we ought to deal with who are not going to grow old with their partners, and there are single women. We need to talk about income security for women in the broader context, not as attached couples but as individual citizens. What's happened here with income splitting is fine, but we need to go beyond that.
If you could help me to understand, have you looked at or done any research with respect to income security for women as entities on their own? I'm trying to say this just doesn't do it, and it's frustrating.