Fixing the Future: How Canada's Usually Fractious Governments Worked Together to Rescue the Canada Pension Plan

by Bruce Little

Book Overview

In 1993, most Canadians believed that big government deficits were permanent and that the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) was in such deep trouble that younger Canadians would never collect a retirement pension. They believed too that Canada's politicians were incapable of dealing with either problem. Yet by 1998, both were essentially solved.

While the deficit battles have been recounted many times, the story of the reform that rescued...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802095836
• ISBN13: 9780802095831
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Rotman-Utp Publishing
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.7"