Human Resources committee  In the 2003 Romanow report and health care accords, it was pointed out that the next big challenge in our health care system will be the need to provide home care as an alternative to institutional care, simply because the cost of institutional care is impossible. The only option

Human Resources committee  I have quite a lot. The CPP is a good example of something that was a big idea that worked. It helped lift an entire generation out of poverty. It required substantial government investment. We are now facing a situation where the amount of coverage in CPP, for example, is simp

Human Resources committee  As I mentioned before, our focus is on older Canadians, but the importance of any government taking a role is not only to provide coordination, funding, direction, and so on that would be necessary for a successful event, but also their rhetoric is enough to set a new code of val

Human Resources committee  I will be speaking first. Thank you. My name is Susan Eng, and I am with CARP. Our formal name is the Canadian Association of Retired Persons; however, we don't use the full, formal name anymore because most of us are either not retired or can't afford to retire, so we use the n

Finance committee  I'm not sure if I fully understood the question through the translation, but I think you're asking how we deal with the kind of job situation that we have now, where people are losing jobs that have pension benefits attached to them and are gaining jobs that do not. In fact, the

Finance committee  Yes, it is.

Finance committee  It's actually e-mail. As you know, we have 330,000 members; however, only 80,000 of them have subscribed to the online newsletter. At the push of a button, we reach 80,000 members--

Finance committee  About 3,700 replied within the last two to three days. There was a high level of interest and support for a universal pension plan.

Finance committee  Well, all people over 65 are entitled to OAS--

Finance committee  --but we don't have the exact numbers for how many of them get the full amount. For the GIS, I think it was something like 37%, but I don't have those numbers in my head. Quite a sizeable number of people are reliant on GIS, which is the supplement, and there are estimates of a

Finance committee  That's right. Correct.

Finance committee  First of all, it's not funded by the taxpayer; it's funded by the employers and employees, as is the current state of affairs with the CPP. In the--

Finance committee  No. It is a contribution towards your own retirement. There are small employers who call it a payroll tax, but in fact it is a contribution by employer and employee towards the retirement of that individual. That is the kind of model we're recommending for a universal plan to cov

Finance committee  Remember that the private plans have their own defined benefits, and so it's going to cost what it costs for them and their employee group as to what it will cost actuarially to pay for their benefits. The CPP, which is the example we use, costs employer and employee together 9%

Finance committee  They would have to come up with it.