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Pension Protection for Seniors Overdue

Attention DIPAC members - Action Required

Folks watch for an email about a campaign being undertaken by Canadian Federation of Pensioners (CFP) relative to Defined Benefit pensioner security. This is being undertaken during the federal election to understand where the various parties stand relative to this extremely important topic for defined pensioners members' security going forward. These email campaigns to your local candidates have proven successful in the past so we encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity to let candidates understand where we as the defined pensioner community stand.

Please pass on the family, friends, and colleagues to get this important message across to the political parties.

Thank you in advance
Your DIPAC board

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Urgent action needed to protect pensioners - Bill C-253

Folks here is a request from CFP to ensure the government knows the seriousness with which seniors take pension security and that it is a major issue for us with DB plans. Please review the material and try and take the next step by contacting your MP to indicate your support. Th...

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Advocacy Day - Summary

On Tuesday, October 17th members of DIPAC along with the Canadian Federation of Pensioners (CFP) hosted a breakfast at Queens Park for all MPP's and key influencers on pension policy for the province. The breakfast was followed with a series of one on one meeting with a number of...

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Advocacy Day

Recall that at our Annual General Meeting in April we discussed a number of critical issues that the DIPAC board was concerned about and working on. At the federal level, we were gathering signatures for a petition, asking the Government to elevate the priority given to pensioner...

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Sears Canada Bankruptcy

What is happening to Sears Canada pensioners is what we have been discussing at the last couple of DIPAC Annual General Meetings and why the Canadian Federation of Pensioners (CFP) is putting a lot of effort to change the CCAA to prioritize pension obligations higher up in the liability recognition as opposed to today where pensions are treated as an unsecured creditor.

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William Flynn Pension Protection for Seniors Overdue
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My concern is that by sending this to all the members we are taking away from Erin O'Toole's pledge ...