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By the mid-1990s, the 3.6% contribution rate was not sufficient to keep up with Canada's aging population, [12] and it was concluded that the "pay-as-you-go" structure would lead to excessively high contribution rates within about 20 years, due to Canada's changing demographics, increased life expectancy, a changing economy, benefit ...
Ontario regulates approximately 8,350 employment pension plans, which comprise more than 40 per cent of all registered pension plans in Canada [1] It was originally enacted as the Pension Benefits Act, 1965 (S.O. 1965, c. 96), and it was the first statute in any Canadian jurisdiction to regulate pension plans. [2]
Despite opinion pieces claiming the imminent demise of DB plans in Canada, [7] Statistics Canada information verifies only a slight decline in the number of plans over the most recently available five-year period (9,304 in 2017 to 9,022 in 2021 – a 3.13% reduction). [8]
The AOW pension age depends on an individual's birth-date, with those born before 1 January 1961 having a pension age of 67 years, [31] while those born between the 1 January 1961 and 30 September 1962 have a pension age of 67 years and 3 months, [31] and those born after the 1 October 1962 having a currently unknown pension age.
In Canada, provinces and territories are responsible for their elementary and secondary schools. Education is compulsory up to the age of 16 in most provinces, 17 and 18 in others. Both elementary and secondary education is provided at a nominal cost.
The IFS said that due to increasing the state pension age from 65 to 66, the income poverty rate of single people aged 65 rose by 22 percentage points, from 16% to 38% and the rate for 65-year-old ...
The Wilson Center claimed that Canada's productivity challenges were exacerbated by various structural factors which included geographic and climate-related challenges due to the country's vast size and harsh climate conditions affecting transportation and infrastructure, widespread provincial regulations creating interprovincial trade barriers ...
[13]: 2 The poverty rate in Canada in 2008, was among the highest of the OECD member nations, the world's wealthiest industrialized nations. [6] In 2013, Canada's high poverty rate ranked among the worst of 17 high income countries with 12.1% living in poverty. [91] Canada's child poverty rate was 15.1% compared to 12.8% in the mid-1990s.