Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the committee members for having CUPE here today. CUPE is Canada's largest trade union. We have 639,000 members across the country. Pensions are a very big deal for our members. Half of our members don't have good defined-benefit plans in t

Finance committee  No, and as I said today, it was a surprise to us to see they were not included. The signed document the finance ministers put out in June and the backgrounder they produced at the time said nothing about this, so it was only when we saw the legislation. During the years of talks

Finance committee  My view would be more in line with the Trudeau government of 1977, when they brought in this measure and said they were doing away with the subsidy that flowed from the unpaid work in the home that served to penalize the person doing that unpaid work under the CPP. They saw that

Finance committee  You're asking about a dollar impact on a CPP benefit for a person with dropouts versus a person without.

Finance committee  We don't know those numbers. The finance officials and the chief actuary's office were asked directly about that and they responded that they didn't have those figures and hadn't run them. They're really the only people who can do those kinds of calculations. As I said, the ave

Finance committee  Yes, we have lots of municipal members.

Finance committee  I believe so, yes.

Finance committee  Under the CPP legislation...?

Finance committee  I would agree with the comments of the CLC on this, that the contribution rate increase is quite modest for most municipal workers. I'd say for the vast majority of municipal workers you're looking at 1% of payroll on the employer's side. That's with the notice period of a couple

Finance committee  We think that's well within the realm of affordability.

Finance committee  This is just one line item of a very complicated municipal budget. What we expect to hear from employers is that they're going to be increasing their contributions. We're going to hear about that at bargaining tables and that's going to be part of a complicated bargaining structu

Finance committee  No, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying we expect to be hearing that. Our position is going to be that the CPP increases are modest and affordable. We have a seven-year to nine-year period to prepare for them. We can find 1% in a municipal budget to make that happen.

Finance committee  It's a great question. To even know how much you're going to receive from CPP, you have to go on Service Canada and create a log-in to get your CPP statement. It's not something that's automatically sent to Canadians every year. We automatically see our deductions from our payche

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Chair, and thank you to the committee for having me today. The Canadian Union of Public Employees is the largest trade union in the country. We represent 650,000 workers across the country, mostly in the public sector. Pensions and retirement security are issues we ta

Human Resources committee  Yes.