Nous pouvons prendre note du fait qu'à l'époque, le premier ministre Louis Saint-Laurent avait dit que, vu les conditions dans lesquelles s'exerçaient les activités politiques, il était impossible pour un parlementaire d'assurer convenablement ses «vieux jours».
We might take notice that the prime minister of the day, Louis St. Laurent, said they wanted to make sure what was happening in those days in terms of the public service made it impossible for somebody who was serving as a member of Parliament to provide adequately for his later years.