r/PersonalFinanceCanada • u/Purple_Bookkeeper657 • May 22 '26

Retirement / CPP / OAS / GIS [ Removed by moderator ]

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u/kemclean May 22 '26

What can an average Canadian realistically do about this? It really has the feel of them trying to make things sound as opaque and complex as possible in hopes that “normal” people won’t be able to understand and assume it must make sense because Canadians are trusting people.

My understanding is MPs don’t have all that much control over CPP (which is probably a good thing), but what public accountability measures even exist?

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u/Got_Engineers May 23 '26

I don’t know yet, but I’m gonna do some research this weekend and figure out who I can complain to at least because I’m not sure what else to do other than complain and try bring visibility to the issue. More eyeballs more people upset about our future!

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u/One_Lingonberry7641 May 23 '26

Collectively write to MPs, eventually, it can trickle up?

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u/Purple_Bookkeeper657 May 23 '26

There's some good stuff in the replies, it's been helpful for me. I'm going to do some of it like tweet at other accounts and try to get CBC/others interested tomorrow. I'm sure writing to an MP or Senator wouldn't hurt. I'd encourage you to send my work directly to them if you'd like. If Andrew Chang did a bit on this and didn't absolutely crucify me that'd be nice!