SIGN Petition to expand the CPP/QPP

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Petition to expand the CPP/QPP - (due mid-January 2014)

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We need to do something about retirement income. Even bank economists have started to say RRSPs have failed. There’s too much risk and not enough security to ensure that, after a lifetime of work, people can retire and live out their last years in dignity. Too many of today’s seniors live in poverty and too many older workers are realizing their retirement plans have come up short because the investment returns they were promised never materialized or they simply could not save enough on their own. The financial services industry pays itself juicy fees to manage your money and that eats up a big part of your retirement savings – if you have any retirement savings left when you are ready to retire, after the roller coaster dips and dives of the stock market.

The best way to help today’s workers save enough money for tomorrow is by increasing what everybody gets from the Canada Pension Plan (CPP)as a share of their total retirement income.

Expanding the CPP is about preparing for the future, and leaving behind a better system for our kids.

Join thousands of Canadians who are telling their Members of Parliament to increase pension benefits under the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans, and implement a fully funded plan to phase in such an increase without delay.

Petition to expand the CPP/QPP

We, the undersigned residents of Canada, draw the attention of the House of Commons to the following:

Retirement security is one of the most pressing economic challenges facing Canadian families today. Less than 40% of all employees are covered by a workplace pension plan. Millions of Canadians simply can’t save enough on their own to retire.

Canada is facing a pension crisis. Expanding the Canada Pension Plan/Quebec Pension Plan – everyone’s pension plan - will make sure that all workers in Canada can count on a decent pension in retirement.

Every worker in Canada belongs to the CPP/QPP. The Canada and Quebec Pension Plans are safe, fully-portable, and provide predictable, secure, inflation-protected benefits for life, at very low cost.

Pension experts, provincial governments and seniors organizations all support increasing the CPP/QPP.

THEREFORE we call on the Federal government to work with provincial and territorial governments to increase pension benefits under the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans, and implement a fully funded plan to phase in such an increase without delay.

SIGN PETITION:

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