Description: Summarization of address at the SOA annual meeting, October 1979, by William W. Whitson, Ph.D., of the Congressional Research Service. He conducted a study on the prospects of socio-political change, and concluded there could be some disturbing discontinuities.

Description: This article discusses a paper entitled, “Looking at Canada in 1980.” The author of this article, editor of The Actuary, notes that the paper’s author, A. Peter Hardy, F.I.A., who had called upon his own experiences in Canada in 1976-79 to write it, provided a copy, excerpts from which are included in the discussion. Three of the areas Mr. Hardy addressed for comparison between Canada and UK practice are discussed in this article: taxation, guaranteed cash surrender values, and life insurance commission and the field force.