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Excerpt from an article in Law Times - August 18, 2014
(Note: Link to story at end of post)
Even in New Brunswick, however, it’s not clear where the tale will end. Some 13,000 pensioners are challenging the constitutionality of the New Brunswick pension legislation, particularly the provisions that retroactively eliminate cost-of-living adjustments.
“Pensioners require as much financial certainty as possible as they budget for the end of their lives,” says Koskie Minsky LLP’s Ari Kaplan, lead lawyer for the applicants, in a press release.
Court Date/Date d Audience de la Cour
The Coalition is advised that the hearing of the parties' motions in our application will begin at the JusticeBuilding in Fredericton on September 29, 2014 at 9:30 a.m. The Province's motion will be heard first. Copies of legal documents filed on behalf of the Province:
La Coalition a été avisé que l'audience des parties sur les motions de notre dossier judiciaire, débutera le 29 Septembre 2014, à 9:30 am a L Edifice de la Justice a Fredericton. La Motion de la Province sera entendu en premier. Les copies des documents deposes:
http://www.pensioncoalitionnb.ca/images/aug2014/Affidavit.pdf
http://www.pensioncoalitionnb.ca/images/aug2014/AffidavitofLLW-Glossary_of_Defined_Terms.pdf
http://www.pensioncoalitionnb.ca/images/aug2014/AffidavitofLLW-List_of_Exhibits.pdf
http://www.pensioncoalitionnb.ca/images/aug2014/Notice_of_Motion.pdf
http://www.pensioncoalitionnb.ca/images/aug2014/PNB-Pension-Correspondence_to_Clerk.pdf
Open Letter to Ken Sorenson, Minister of State (Finance) - Ottawa
July 25, 2014 The Honourable Kevin Sorenson,
P.C., M.P. Minister of State (Finance)
House of Commons Ottawa ON K1A 0A6
Dear Minister:
The collected retiree groups that have endorsed this letter represent hundreds of thousands of retired pension plan members in Canada. We are writing you to express our serious concerns regarding the government’s recent ‘consultation’ on a potential framework for target-benefit pension plans in the federal private-sector and for Crown corporations.
Public pensioners unfairly portrayed - M. Irvine
Times & Transcript 23 Jul 2014, To The Editor:
It doesn’t matter how many times some people hear this; they choose to believe something other than the truth. I am responding to Bud Garner’s Forum letter, Heat’s on for gold plated pension club (July 12). It’s amazing how some people will hear and say something long enough that they actually begin to believe it.
CBC story on inflation and impact on middle-class
Current inflation is killing off the Canadian middle class: Don Pittis