pension reform

Our Editorial: It’s past time to rein in the public sector pension plan bacchanalia

Aug. 18 protest saw roughly 250 unionized workers barge into city hall, where they tossed paper, threw glasses of water and smashed windows

How the Conservatives are fudging the numbers

An expanded CPP could hurt low-income earners, says Stephen Gordon

Runaway compensation is hurting students

Never mind the hypothetical cuts to OAS, Ottawa’s got some actual pension measures before Parliament

Jack Layton promises pension reform.

Prorogation allowed Ignatieff to see through the fog of his foibles and find his vision

Apparently in response to a request from the Prime Minister, Michael Ignatieff writes to inform Mr. Harper of all the issues the Liberals would be keen to work on when Parliament resumes, including cap-and-trade, pension reform, pay equity, government oversight, mental health, maternal health, veterans, prorogation and Afghan detainees.

Patterns in politics are obviously more revealing than isolated actions. When Michael Ignatieff decided last week to throw Liberal support behind harmonizing provincial sales taxes in B.C. and Ontario with the federal GST, it was merely an interesting event. Combine that risky political move with yesterday’s proposal from Ignatieff on pension reform, however, and you’ve got the beginnings of something that deserves closer attention.

Peter MacKay, responding to opposition questions, October 19. I will note that when it comes to Bloc members, I wish they would spend just as much time standing up and protecting the interests of Canadian soldiers as they do for the vigour they seem to have for Taliban prisoners … The member has now asked, I believe, nine or ten questions on the Military Police Complaints Commission. I only wish he would bring that type of enthusiasm to support the men and women of the Canadian Forces.

Jack Layton talks pension reform.