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YOUR man Doug

dozed during that

snorefest of a party
« headers’ debate,

As romeone on the
Finanedal Past pac tt, the
wonder was not that the
moderator passed out during
the French language talk
show but thar Ann Medina
managed to stay consclous all
through the debate in:

Hovis h oo
Which brings me toa
matter they didn't touch —~
the dodge known as the MPs"
pension plan,

The plan is as firm as the

‘Rock of Gibraltar even
though its perpetrators would
be in the clink if' any private
company teed similar
uunflinded tacties, Ordinary
Canadians, meanwhile, cour
tesy of the Liberals, aze going
to have to pay an extra $10

billion a year. in increased

Canada Pension Plan contri-
butions, ,

The National Ciizens

Coalition (NCC) is putting

on an advertising campaign
to show the MPs? deal for
what it is ‘robbery,

Here are the (acta

After Mls have been in
the Honige for only six or
Seven yates, lxpayers have to
fork OUL every penny! of the
contelbutions that go Into
dielr pensions, Even then you
WHI have pal the “govern

‘ment’s® hall for that perlod,
80 It effect you are paylng
the full shot afler only three
or four years,

Hvery Reform MP except
one has opted out ofthe
dha, A handfil of Liberals
have done the same, and 40
have one or awo ln the Bloe
Quebecols,

North Van's ‘Ted White
sid before he was elected
that he was against the plan
and that he would apt out of
it, Which he has done, Will
Warren Kinsella do Iikewise?
Ihe is elected, whieh God
forbid, don't hold your
breath,

As the NCC points outs

MPs! pensions have
unlimited protection against
inflation; they grow at (vice
the rate allowed In the private
sector, and are payable In full
at age 45,

Meauwhile, your CPP {s
payable at age 65 and grows
very slowly. ‘The Liberals have
even reduced the period dur
ing which you cane mtribute
to it. The cut-off date used to
be 71. It is now 69,

The NCC describes the
increase ny CPP contribudons
as “the most revoltingly hyp-
oeritical tax grab in the histas
ry of Canada” and are calling
thelr advertising campaign

Operation Pork Chop,

‘The organization 4s (Inger:
Tog all the theabers who
stand to quality fore the plan
alter serving anew term, anid
is asking people not to vote
for then

There are 21 of them,
Including four in BG,

‘They are Raymond Chan

“The (MPs? pen-
sion) plan is as
firm as the Rock
of Gibraltar even
though its perpe-
trators would be
in the clink ifany
private company
tried similar
unfunded tactics.”

of Riehmond, John Cummins
of Delta, Hedy Fry of
Vancouver Centre, and Anna
‘Terrana of Vancouver Bast,
Three Liberals and the lone
Reformer,

Cummins does have
something of an excuse for
not opting out, He isa
teacher and if he’s away trom
his job for more than eight
years he loses his teacher's
pension,

When the ‘Tories went
down to defeat In 1993
about 130 of then qualified

for an average of $41,000 0
fear, HO mttaer Dow old or
row you they were,

And some MPs will be fit
dnd happy at your expense
no matter what happens on
June 2,

Not a sligle soehallst has
opted out. The days when
adelalints practised what they
predched have gone but |
reeall that when Winnlpeg's
Stanley Knowles retired he

awe his pension to charity,

Te way also named “father of
the house” = pot only
because fe had been in ft
since the original Broun went
to parllament in the 1930s
but because he was a poble,
incorruptible man,

Fast forward to Syend
Robinson, The NCC caleulat. ’
ed four years ago that he
even then would have been
entitled to over $100,000 a
year on reaching 60 years of
ae If he had left in 1998,
iis pension would still have
started at about $40,000 a
year,

Shella Copps will get a
total of $2.7 million ifshe
retires and lives to be 75,

Blog Quebecois members
qualify for the pension along
with everyone else,
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_ believes strougly In freedom vn
speech nad the vibe of all sides
nat debate to be heard, Ue
coliasnndsts usttishedt (nt the
News preent differing points
of viens but those views ave nut
necessivily those of the newspae
per itself:

Ine real
accret of

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be even stranger would be If
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