Description: In recent months, many significant developments in Canada have affected employee benefits, particularly pensions. Other Canadian issues discussed in this article are unemployment insurance and taxation of pensions.

Description: This article is the first of two parts - the second part published in the December, 1981 issue of The Actuary - and provides a summary of Canada’s National Pension Conference. The author of this article, a participant at the conference, notes that the prevailing view in Canada is that the government and employer, not the employee, jointly share the responsibility of providing financial security in old age.

Description: This article is the second of two parts the first published in the September, 1981 issue of The Actuary and provides a summary of the discussions which took place at Canada’s National Pension Conference. Topics discussed by delegates included the appropriate roles of both public and private sector pension plans in Canada.