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  1. CPP Returns and generational inequity

    The Institute recently released a study that calculated rates of return (nominal and real) received by Canadian retirees from the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). One of the main reasons for the study was to clarify the difference between ...

  2. Rates of Return for the Canada Pension Plan

    There is confusion regarding the rates of return earned by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), which manages the investable funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) with the returns received by individual Canadian workers in the form of CPP ...

  3. Responding to critics of 'retirement income' and 'CPP' studies

    Since 2013, the Fraser Institute has published a number of studies examining aspects of the state of retirement income in Canada, including reforms to the Old Age Security, the true state of retirement income adequacy, the total costs ...

  4. Forget CPP expansion; let’s talk about ways to actually help seniors who need it

    After Canada’s finance ministers met back in December 2015, the push to expand the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) halted somewhat, with the ministers agreeing to revisit the issue at their June 2016 meeting. As we have noted before, the ...

  5. Ontario pension plan is unnecessary—and will result in lower wages

    This week, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne (pictured above) reiterated her government’s commitment to push ahead with its provincial pension plan—the ORPP—despite evidence that it’s unnecessary and counter-productive. But there will be ...

  6. Rethink Ontario’s unnecessary and counterproductive pension plan

    Appeared in the Toronto Sun, January 20, 2016 In December, Canada’s finance ministers decided to at least temporarily put the brakes on a proposed expansion of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). This was a welcome development, since expanding the CPP is a ...

  7. There are several reasons to oppose CPP expansion

    Appeared in the National Post, January 7, 2016 News reports following the meeting of Canada’s finance ministers suggest that the brakes will put on the federal government’s plan to expand the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). As Saskatchewan Finance Minister ...

  8. Canada’s finance ministers should consider the evidence when discussing CPP expansion

    When newly minted federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau (pictured above) meets with his provincial and territorial counterparts next week, expanding the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) will be on the agenda. After all, the Liberals campaigned ...

  9. Think-tanker ascends to minister of finance

    Appeared in the National Newswatch, November 23, 2015 Earlier this month, Bill Morneau, the former chair of the C.D. Howe Institute, was appointed Canada’s minister of finance. In the coming months, Morneau will be tasked with one of the government’s most ...

  10. Trudeau should rethink the finance minister’s mandate

    Appeared in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, November 24, 2015 In an attempt to increase transparency, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made “mandate letters” to his ministers publicly available. These letters are intended to clarify the focus of ...