{"id":291646,"date":"2015-04-30T18:28:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T22:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/2015\/04\/never-mind-how-to-spell-it\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:19:12","slug":"never-mind-how-to-spell-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/fr\/2015\/04\/never-mind-how-to-spell-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Never mind how to spell it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A strange story in today&#8217;s <em>Ottawa Citizen<\/em> (not available online as of writing) says &#8220;Ontario passed legislation Wednesday to create a provincial pension plan for more than three million people who do not have a workplace pension&#8230;\u00a0Workers will be required to contribute 1.9 per cent of their pay to the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan, to a maximum of $1,643 a year, which employers have to match for every employee.&#8221; It\u00a0goes on to quote\u00a0Associate Finance Minister Mitzie Hunter that &#8220;Over $3.5 billion will be invested in the fund each year.\u00a0Members of the plan will be able to have an income stream for life when they retire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why&#8217;s that strange? Because of Hunter&#8217;s confidence that saving a few thousand dollars a year will give you &#8220;an income stream for life&#8221;? Her conviction that when companies have to take money they might otherwise put into wages and salaries and divert it to a government fund it doesn&#8217;t come from workers&#8217; pockets? Her belief that government will save for you more efficiently than you would for yourself? Well yes, arguably, on all counts. But what struck me as really odd was the bit where the <em>Citizen<\/em> went on that &#8220;Hunter could not say when retirees could expect to start receiving benefit payments from the provincial pension plan. \u201d\u02dcWe&#8217;re still actually developing details of the plan.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OK, then, how do you know it&#8217;s a good plan if you haven&#8217;t yet figured out how it works, or whether it does? And how can a legislature pass a bill authorizing a scheme crucial details of which are still up in the air? How can legislators exercise their crucial functions of oversight of the executive and control of the public purse when they&#8217;re asked to rubber stamp yeah whatever man we&#8217;ll fill it in later?<\/p>\n<p>It is neither sound public policy nor sound constitutional practice.\u00a0I find that strange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strange story in today&#8217;s Ottawa Citizen (not available online as of writing) says &#8220;Ontario passed legislation Wednesday to create a provincial pension plan for more than three million people who do not have a workplace pension&#8230;\u00a0Workers will be required to contribute 1.9 per cent of their pay to the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan, to 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