The Third Rail: Saving Canada’s Pension System

Leech, Jim and Jacquie McNish. The Third Rail: Saving Canada’s Pension System. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2013. Over the next 20 years more than 7 million Canadian workers will retire. Baby boomers, the 45- to 65-year-olds who account for 42% of the country's workforce, will join the largest job exodus in Canadian history, moving to the promised land of retirement. Unless our crumbling pension system is reformed, many of these retirees will find this dreamland a bewildering and disappointing mirage. Canada has the capacity to diffuse this ticking pension time bomb with some hard choices, posits Leech. It's time for businesses, governments, unions, and employees to face these options and fix - and ultimately save - our pensions system, taking examples from Holland, New Brunswick, and Rhode Island - places in which new laws have been adopted to repair the pensions programs.

Author(s): Jim Leech and Jacquie McNish
Date of release: 2013
Origin of Work: Canada
Categoty: Book
Theme(Topic): Canada, History, Economic, Education
Original Vendor/Source: Low Key
Details of damage: Used-Very Good