OTTAWA – A panel of policy experts and workers will meet over breakfast to discuss solutions for improving Canada’s pension system on the morning of Tuesday, May 25.
The panel will have recommendations for Canada’s finance ministers as they enter their next round of meetings on pensions in Prince Edward Island in June.
Date:
Tuesday, May 25, 2010. Breakfast is served between 7:45 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. Presentations begin at 8:15 a.m., followed by a Q&A session at 8:45 a.m.
Location:
The O’Connor Room at the Sheraton Hotel, 150 Albert Street, Ottawa
Speakers:
Bernard Dussault, former Chief Actuary for the CPP, the OAS and the federal superannuation plans
Susan Eng, Vice-President of Advocacy, Canadian Association for Retired Persons (CARP)
Mary Jane MacKinnon, Nortel retiree and pension reform activist
Paul Moist, National President, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)
Saleh Waziruddin, a trained engineer and call centre worker from Niagara Falls, Ontario
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For more information contact:
CUPE Media Relations – (613) 852-1494