Description: List of Figures. From Economic Security for an Aging Canadian Population, M-RS99-2.

Description: List of Tables. From Economic Security for an Aging Canadian Population, M-RS99-2.

Description: Chapter 3 analyzes the sources of retirement income security within a system of three interdependent tiers of support: government, employer, and individual. Further, this chapter proposes that these three are part of a larger wealth transfer mechanism including other systems such a s health care and employment insurance. From Economic Security for an Aging Canadian Population, M-RS99-2.

Description: Chapter 2 examines the interdependence and interconnectedness of demographic,, economic, and political factors that are driving the move for reforms in the Canadian pension system. The chapter also examines economic patterns among Canadian elderly. From Economic Security for an Aging Canadian Population, M-RS99-2.

Description: Chapter 4 review the evolution of the health care system in Canada, and how an aging population will create cost-escalation pressures on the health care system. The chapter does not address issues concerning the efficiency and efficacy of the present health care system. From Economic Security for an Aging Canadian Population, M-RS99-2.

Description: Chapter 1 sets out the basic contention of this monograph that the reforms to the Canadian C/QPP represent primarily a cutting back of benefits and a partial privatization of Canada's retirement income security system. From Economic Security for an Aging Canadian Population, M-RS99-2.

Description: Chapter 5 examines the failure of the Seniors Benefit proposal, and projects the potential impact of the changes to the C/QPP on the overall economic security that Canadians can hope to realize. From Economic Security for an Aging Canadian Population, M-RS99-2.

Description: Chapter 7 analyzes the demographic variables that could have an effect on the future costs of social security, and then discusses a wealth-transfer model that could be used to stabilize the financing of Canada's total social security system and that would also lower the ultimate cost of Canada's retirement income security programs. From Economic Security for an Aging Canadian Population, M-RS99-2.

Description: Chapter 6 examines the freezing of the Year's Basic Exemption YBE at $3500. While this reform seems small and is subtle, the importance of this change is discussed in detail. It is shown that this change saves the system little money but threatens the progressivity of the retirement income benefit within C/QPP. From Economic Security for an Aging Canadian Population, M-RS99-2.

Description: List of References. From Economic Security for an Aging Canadian Population, M-RS99-2.