The way the legislation for private pensions works is that you're regulated by the jurisdiction that regulates the area of employment. As the federal regulator, we regulate pensions in federally regulated areas of employment, which would be banking, interprovincial transportation, telecommunications, airlines, shipping. There are a number of areas of federal regulation that are spelled out in the Constitution. The provinces regulate other things, for example, health care and education.
As the federal regulator, we have about 10% of the private pension plans under our purview. Ontario is the biggest provincial regulator, because they have the biggest population; I think it has about 30%. Quebec comes next. The smaller provinces have less, because it lines up against population, largely speaking.
Most provinces have legislation that has great similarity to the federal legislation. Quebec has a somewhat unique model, in terms of what it requires in funding for its plans. Ontario is the only province that has a pension benefit guarantee fund. That fund would provide some backstop to members of pension plans of bankrupt companies, but it's not a huge amount.
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