Ottawa’s pension liabilities understated by $80-billion: report

Posted by Kendall Harmon

The federal government is understating the liability for its employee pension plans by $80-billion because it does not use “real world” investment returns in its calculation, a new report says.

A C.D. Howe Institute study has concluded the federal liability for pension plans now totals $227-billion, which is $80-billion more than the government reports in its Public Accounts.

“Ottawa’s calculations do not reflect investment returns available in the real world,” says co-author William Robson, who is CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute.

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Filed under: * Culture-WatchAging / the Elderly* Economics, PoliticsEconomyLabor/Labor Unions/Labor MarketPersonal FinancePensionsPolitics in General* International News & CommentaryCanada

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Posted December 13, 2011 at 3:44 pm [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. RandomJoe wrote:

Two comments: 1) Like the US and unlike the europeans, the Canadians can simply inflate their way out of this problem. 2) the Canadian debt is much smaller than 10% of the US number.

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