Beginning in 2007, the Income Tax Act was changed to allow people contributing to a defined benefit plan to collect some of the benefits while continuing to work part-time. Before that, you couldn't do it. It was not allowed.
The CPP, Canada pension plan, was also changed. I believe it was in 2009 that these discussions took place. It's phased over a number of years, but what is in place now is that you can collect....
We did away with what was called a work cessation test. You had to stop working for two months, detach yourself from the labour market, in order to start collecting the CPP, and then you could go back into the work market. What we found is that detachment, asking people to stop working, too many times for older workers meant that they could not go back to being gainfully employed.
This change now makes it possible to start collecting CPP while working. There's also flexibility in selecting the year you want to collect the CPP, from 60 to 70.