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I was surfing the Internet one day and I noticed that Saskatchewan had unlocked their citizens locked in pensions 100% when they were transferred from a locked in retirement account ((L.I.R.A.)) into a Fund where they would be able to start collecting from . (( we will call the unlocked fund a registered retirement income fund R.R.I.F. )) The name varies a little bit Province to Province. I was surfing a bit more and I found that Manitoba had Unlocked 50% of the locked in funds in their province for their people. (( They are currently being lobbied to unlock the remaining 50% )) I then begin to think (( and that is hard to do sometimes )) Ontario being a progressive Province. Why is Ontario not unlocking these funds for their people. Considering that this is very unjust and cruel legislation keeping these funds Locked in when a person reaches Retirement age. Many of us were lead to belive when we contributed to the Defined Contribution Fund and reached the age of retirement that we could draw on our funds at will. Not be controlled by the Government and only allowed to remove basically the interest on the funds from 2.5% to 11% depending how good the fund was doing. This our OWN MONEY not Government Money. It is not OAS or CPP.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Continuation on how we started


Hi I will continue a little bit more on how our group started . I first started posting in the 50 plus forum . At the first there were arguments that these locked in pensions should not be unlocked and then eventualy there were people that wanted the locked in pensions unlocked . I recived a letter from the NDP to one of my inquires that stated they would put the issue in their pension reform.
From there I started a online petition to the government to unlock pensions then One day i seen in it that Andrea Horwath and her so able assistant Shiela had signed the petition and that Andrea was going to introduce a private members bill to unlock locked in pensions. (( Bill 175 ))

Shortly after that Shiela contacted me and the work begun. By then Nafi (( Bill Nafziger)) and I had connected up and many other people joined in to put out Formal petitions. We presented them to Andrea and she read them in the legislature.By now there were many people working to have this unjust legislation changed . Carl Hansen who went to discuss the issue with Howard Hampton , Send e- mails to the MPP's and gather a formal petition. Carole Dubnicsky who wrote articles and had one printed in the Globe and mail, sent e-mails to the MPP'S and gathered a formal petition. Gail Bebee who wrote e-mails to MPP's and gathered a formal petition and with the rest of the concerned citizens of Ontario and across North America gathered a network of people to have this crule and unjust legislation changed.

Next Bill Gleberzon of CARP contacted us and we were on our way to call for change.

Next two real fighters joined us they were Grant Fleury . A man that realy has a skill in writing letters and getting articles in the papers and on radio talk showes. I must say also Bill Nafziger is very skilled in getting his articles in papers and on TV. Next came Ken Elliott . He was a very mysterious person that we only new in the forums as Suffering Senior. Suffering Senior kept posting these very important articles about how 61 MPP's had their pensions unlocked under Bill 27.
I can remenber every time a new name surfaced to me .I would say to my wife Ruby. I wounder if that is Suffering Senior . Ken finaly contacted the rest of the group and we had a great allie. Then came Anna Pollock a great person and a real fighter who workes tirelessly to have these pensions unlocked. I could go on and on about all the people that have writen me letters and mailed letters to all the MPP'S ect and I have more then likely missed some important issues.

In closing this introduction I would like to say thank you to the Many Many people that are helping us convince this government of Ontario to unlock locked in pensions 100%.

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