http://www.slaw.ca/2009/10/11/panel-on-pension-plan-reform-at-western-law/ Canada's online legal magazine Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:30:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.slaw.ca/2009/10/11/panel-on-pension-plan-reform-at-western-law/comment-page-1/#comment-709142 MITCHELL, David A. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:51:27 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/?p=13216#comment-709142 I am a CEGEP teacher still teaching full time at age 79, going on 80. I should like to retire as many of my colleagues have done and are doing. Regrettably Dawson College and The Dawson Teachers' Union subscribe to the idea that one cannot be a member of our Pension Plan after age 69 although there is no age limiton teaching in Quebec. This means that I was able only to acquire 26 years before 1999, the year I turned 69. Consequently I cannot afford to retire. The only excuse I have been given is, "You are too OLD." CARRA and RREGOP are insensitive to say the least and cruel in their responses, where their Anglophobia is hardly concealed. What is the value of Quebec and Canada both having clauses against AGEISM? I doubt so much absolutely nothing would be done if it were a matter of anti-FEMINISM. I am a CEGEP teacher still teaching full time at age 79, going on 80. I should like to retire as many of my colleagues have done and are doing. Regrettably Dawson College and The Dawson Teachers' Union subscribe to the idea that one cannot be a member of our Pension Plan after age 69 although there is no age limiton teaching in Quebec. This means that I was able only to acquire 26 years before 1999, the year I turned 69. Consequently I cannot afford to retire. The only excuse I have been given is, "You are too OLD." CARRA and RREGOP are insensitive to say the least and cruel in their responses, where their Anglophobia is hardly concealed.
What is the value of Quebec and Canada both having clauses against AGEISM? I doubt so much absolutely nothing would be done if it were a matter of anti-FEMINISM.

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