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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Little, Bruce,
• MitwirkendeR: Ambachtsheer, Keith,; Cook-Bennett, Gail,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Research unit on classroom learning & computer use in schools
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (396 p.)

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 the CPP has gone almost entirely untold. In Fixing the Future, Bruce Little explains the CPP overhaul and shows why it stands as one of Canada's most significant public policy success stories, in part because it demanded an almost unparalleled degree of federal-provincial co-operation. Providing an overview of the CPP's entire history from its beginning in 1965, Little pulls together published, and new unpublished, material relating to the CPP reform, and interviews over fifty politicians, government officials, and others who were deeply involved in the reforms for their recollections, insights, and observations. A superbly told history of one of Canada's most important public policy issues, Fixing the Future will be of interest to political scientists, historians, economists, and anyone concerned about their retirement.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Preface -- Prologue -- 1. Gloomy Canada -- 2. The Creation of a Pension Plan -- 3. The Desultory Decades -- 4. Finally, Some Action on Financing -- 5. Finance Takes Over the File -- 6. Public Fears, Proposed Solutions -- 7. The Bombshell Report -- 8. The Outside Debate -- 9. The Reform Takes Shape -- 10. Clarifying the Choices -- 11. Consultations - Of All Kinds -- 12. Progress and Stumbles -- 13. Rules for the Fund -- 14. Autumn Obstacles -- 15. The Deal Is Done -- 16. Parliament Gets Its Say -- 17. Launching the CPP Investment Board -- 18. Lessons Learned -- Appendix: Summary of Canada Pension Plan Provisions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration credits -- Index