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Ken Georgetti on Old Age Security

Posted: Monday, 30 January 2012

Ken Georgetti's letter on Prime Minister Harper's announcement to change Old Age Security as published in The Globe and Mail, Saturday, January 28, 2012 Raising the age of eligibility for Old Age Security/Guaranteed Income Supplement benefits is the worst … Read More

British Columbia needs CPP reform

Posted: Tuesday, 13 December 2011

(Published in the Victoria Times Colonist, December 13, 2011) Canada’s federal and provincial finance ministers, including British Columbia’s Kevin Falcon, will meet in Victoria later this month. They must know that Canada is approaching a retirement i… Read More

Financial literacy no protection against industry rip offs

Posted: Tuesday, 29 November 2011

November is Financial Literacy month. Celebrities aren’t yet growing moustaches to raise awareness about the issue but stay tuned because this may be coming soon, if the time and money devoted to the cause is any indication. A Task Force on Financial Lite… Read More

Canada Pension Plan protects workers against market meltdown

Posted: Thursday, 11 August 2011

by Ken Georgetti Just when you thought the 2008 global financial crisis was an ugly memory, the stock-market roller-coaster is back with a vengeance, and we’re along for the wild ride. Across the world, investor fears over sovereign debt and sluggish gr… Read More

Georgetti responds to CFIB attack on public sector workers

Posted: Thursday, 4 August 2011

You know that Labour Day is drawing near when the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) launches another of its annual strategically-timed attacks on working men and women. Dan Kelly, a CFIB vice-president, has written an Opinion Editorial publ… Read More

Georgetti praises study calling for improved CPP

Posted: Thursday, 7 July 2011

Keith Horner, a former senior economist with the federal Department of Finance, has produced a study in which he says improving benefits under the Canada and Quebec Pensions Plans is the best option for ensuring retirement security for Canadians. The report… Read More

Georgetti disputes newspaper claim regarding CPP

Posted: Monday, 4 July 2011

On July 4, columnist Brian Jones wrote in The Telegram (St. John’s) that unions are “lagging” when it comes to advocating for improvements to the Canada Pension Plan. That is not true and CLC President Ken Georgetti wrote to the newspaper to set the r… Read More

Pension shortfalls

Posted: Tuesday, 12 April 2011

CLC President Ken Georgetti responded to a column in the Winnipeg Free Press by an employee of the Fraser Institute who claimed that the Canada Pension Plan has higher management expenses than has been stated by the CLC. As published in the Winnipeg Fre… Read More

CPP a better bet than private plans

Posted: Tuesday, 1 March 2011

Fewer and fewer workers are covered by employer pension plans, and individual RRSPs have failed to fill the gap. Left completely on their own, people have saved too little for retirement and far too much of what they do manage to save is swallowed up by the… Read More

Letter to the Editor of the Globe and Mail on the proposed PRPPs

Posted: Tuesday, 21 December 2010

On December 16, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, who had previously supported enhancing the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans, proposed instead a privately administered option called Pooled Registered Pension Plans (PRPPs). The CLC is opposed to PRPPs, as CLC P… Read More

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