• provide universal access to defined pension benefits for the estimated one in three Canadians without any retirement savings by the time they retire through a universally available pension plan modeled on the CPP; and

• Immediately call a Pension Summit of the First Ministers and Finance Ministers to initiate and coordinate pension reform measures to protect the retirement security of all Canadians and ensure the material participation of knowledgeable representatives of plan members and retirees.

Please take a minute to use CARP’s E-VOICE http://www.carp.ca/evoice/ to write to your MPs in support of CARP’s proposal for a Universal Plan as well as your Provincial and Federal Ministers of Finance (list below).

You can also view a video coverage of CARP’s pension advocacy on the CARP homepage as well as a CARP Action TV webcast featuring an interview with pension and tax expert James Pierlot by going to the CARP homepage, clicking the CARP Action TV logo near the top left portion of the screen, and clicking “CARP on Demand”.

Ministers of Finance

AB- Hon. Iris Evans, Minister of Finance Fin_ent.minister@goa.mail.gov.ab.ca
BC- Hon. Colin Hansen, Minister of Finance Fin.minister@gov.bc.ca
MB- Hon. Greg Selinger, Minister of Finance minfin@leg.gov.mb.ca
NB- Hon. Victor Boudreau, Minister of Finance Victor.boudreau@gnb.ca
NL- Hon. Thomas W. Marshall, Minister of Finance thomasmarshall@gov.nl.ca
NS- Hon. Jamie Muir, Minister of Finance FinanceWeb@gov.ns.ca
NT- Hon. Michael J. Miltenberger, Minister of Finance Michael_miltenberger@gov.nt.ca
NU- Hon. Louis Tapardjuik, Minister of Finance ltarpardjuk@assembly.nu.ca
ON- Hon. Dwight Duncan, Minister of Finance Dduncan.mpp@liberal.ola.org
QC- Hon. Monique Jerome-Forget, Minster of Finance, Ministre des Finances minister@finances.gouv.qc.ca
SK- Hon. Harry Van Mulligan, Minister of Finance Minister@finance.gov.sk.ca
YK- Hon. Dennis Fentie, Minister of Finance Dennis.fentie@gov.yk.ca