Theres a strange silence in the run up to the Finance Ministers meeting in Kanansakis later this month not unlike their slipping into Whitehorse just before Christmas last year perhaps hoping we couldnt find them!
Granted they have to tackle health care funding too but what about their much ballyhooed announcements after their PEI meeting this June? Have we seen any change? Modest CPP enhancements? um no. And according to Albertas Ted Morton, Hell no!
Let the private sector innovate they said. Industry has offered new and improved multi-employer plans – provided government obligates employers to offer some pension plan thereby driving billions of dollars of business into the private sector with no public option. So whats the track record of private MEPPs? Check out yesterdays papers
CARP members have said again and again that we have to get started on improving retirement security not for themselves, theyre mostly already retired but for other Canadians who – the experts finally agree are not saving enough and need a better savings vehicle to save for their own retirement.
A simple message that doesnt seem to be getting through. So, nows the time to ask your Finance Minister or all the Finance Ministers when, not if, are you planning to take the first step in pension reform.
You can use CARP E-Voice
Ministers of Finance
AB- Hon. Ted Morton, Minister of Finance Finance.Webmaster@gov.ab.ca
BC- Hon. Colin Hansen, Minister of Finance Colin.Hansen.MLA@leg.bc.ca
MB- Hon. Rosann Wowchuk, Minister of Finance minfin@leg.gov.mb.ca
NB- Hon. Blaine Higgs, Minister of Finance blaine.higgs@gnb.ca
NL- Hon. Tom Marshall, Minister of Finance financeminister@gov.nl.ca
NS- Hon. Graham Steele, Minister of Finance finamin@gov.ns.ca
NT- Hon. Michael J. Miltenberger, Minister of Finance Michael_miltenberger@gov.nt.ca
ON- Hon. Dwight Duncan, Minister of Finance Dduncan.mpp@liberal.ola.org
PEI- Hon. Wesley J. Sheridan, Ministry of the Provincial Treasurey wjsheridan@gov.pe.ca
QC- Hon. Raymond Bachand, Minster of Finance, Ministre des Finances minister@finances.gouv.qc.ca
SK- Hon. Hon. Ken Krawetz, Minister of Finance minister@finance.gov.sk.ca
YK- Hon. Dennis Fentie, Minister of Finance Dennis.fentie@gov.yk.ca
Keywords: pension reform
