“We have been calling on the Liberals, to immediately recognize their mistake and take action to fix it but so far the Minister refuses to even acknowledge the problem,� said NDP Pensions Critic Scott Duvall. “Seeing nothing from the Liberals, we will be proposing to fix the bill ourselves.�
The Liberal legislation on CPP expansion, Bill C-26, does not contain the Child Rearing Drop-out Provision, which already exists in the current CPP so that parents, mostly women, are not penalized for time taken out of the workforce to raise children. The Liberal bill also fails to replicate a similar existing drop out provision for people that have received CPP disability benefits.