It’s time to fish or cut bait on CPP expansion

The least the federal government can do now is not get in the way of meaningful enhancement of CPP. Or Canada’s largest province may actually go it alone.

With Ontario proceeding at a quick pace with its own Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP), and a phased-in participation beginning next January, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne's government has sent signals to its friends in Ottawa that it’s open to abandoning the Ontario plan—if, in the words of Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa, the federal enhancement is 'in a form that is close to what ORPP is.'The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY SARAH SCHMIDT

June 13, 2016

OTTAWA—So we’ve finally arrived at the moment of reckoning for the Canada Pension Plan. Next week, federal and provincial finance ministers are meeting in Vancouver to see if they can hammer out an agreement to expand Canada’s public pension plan. Pushing it off, as has been the case for the ...

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