Human Resources committee  I can only explain how the Canada Pension Plan works. I should also say -- and I believe this was mentioned in our presentation -- that the courts also stipulated that certain personal characteristics can be considered. So, if an older person with very little education has a sig

Human Resources committee  The matter of the eligibility test for disability benefits under the Canada Pension Plan has been the subject of a number of directives handed down by the courts in previous years. The specific matter that you're raising, namely whether socio-economic factors enter into the decis

Human Resources committee  This was an amendment made to the Canada Pension Plan in 2005. On February 1, it came into effect. For several years we've allowed people to have sporadic earnings, because that's not a demonstration that they can regularly work at a substantially gainful level, but a small min