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  1. Evaluating the Proposed Ontario Pension Plan

    The Ontario government has proposed its own supplement to the CPP in an attempt to force more saving. In reality, Ontarians typically have an above-average saving rate, double that of the rest of Canada as recently as 2009. Saving in Ontario returned to ...

  2. Plans to expand government pensions based on faulty assumptions

    Appeared in the Financial Post With talks to expand the Canada Pension Plan having stalled, the Ontario government has pledged to roll out its own provincial version. The impulse for a ‘big CPP’ hinges on the assumption that Canadians are too ignorant or ...

  3. The Reality of Retirement Income in Canada

    Building on the three pillars of Canada?s pension system, the current retirement income system serves the vast majority of Canadians very well. The problem of poverty among the elderly, which drove many of the reforms in the 1970s and 1980s, has largely ...

  4. Government unions and pension fantasies

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald In Alberta, almost twice as many workers in the government sector possessed defined benefit pension plans in 2011 when compared with private sector employees. That might explain why so many government employees’ unions, from ...

  5. What can Canada learn from pension reform Down Under?

    Appeared in the Financial Post As Canada's finance ministers meet to discuss the Canada Pension Plan, the debate has thus far been insulated from international pension models and limited to whether or not we should expand the CPP. Canadians, however, ...

  6. No retirement crisis in Canada

      The upcoming meeting of federal and provincial finance ministers will touch on what's become a politically charged debate about expanding the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). Proponents have tried to convince Canadians they are not saving sufficiently ...

  7. Policy reforms in Australia and what they mean for Canada

    Canada and Australia share many common cultural, economic, governmental, political, and socio-economic characteristics, yet few researchers have carried out comparative analyses of their public policy experiences. These two papers— the first by Stephen ...

  8. More caution needed in plan to expand CPP

    posted October 31, 2013 Some provincial politicians are again trying to make the dubious case that we have a " retirement income crisis " to revive calls for a mandatory expansion to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP).  While the issue is set to be ...

  9. Criticism of CPP paper by SFU's Kesselman ignores basic economic concepts

    Appeared in the Financial Post The tone and language used by Professor Rhys Kesselman in his criticism of our recent study on the CPP and RRSPs is a far cry from the professionalism and decorum one would expect from a distinguished economist and holder of ...

  10. Debate about expanding the CPP incomplete

    Appeared in the National Post The idea of expanding the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) resurfaced in December 2012 during a meeting of the federal and provincial finance ministers. The ministers agreed to explore possible reforms to the CPP at their next ...