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{
    "time": "2022-10-19 17:40:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Chris Roberts (Director, Social and Economic Policy, Canadian Labour Congress)",
        "fr": "M. Chris Roberts (directeur, Politiques sociales et \u00e9conomiques, Congr\u00e8s du travail du Canada)"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"7373855\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I think the provisions in the bill that allow an administrator of a plan to apply to the superintendent for permission to transfer the liabilities and assets of a plan that is sponsored by a distressed company are just underdetailed. There need to be far more protections for DB plan members to ensure that those accrued DB benefits are not converted to DC or lesser benefits. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7373856\" data-originallang=\"en\">We would just argue to strike that entirely.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"7373855\" data-originallang=\"en\"> Je pense que les dispositions du projet de loi qui permettent \u00e0 l'administrateur d'un r\u00e9gime de demander au surintendant la permission de transf\u00e9rer le passif et l'actif d'un r\u00e9gime qui est parrain\u00e9 par une entreprise en difficult\u00e9 ne comportent tout simplement pas assez de d\u00e9tails. Il faut beaucoup plus de mesures de protection pour les participants aux r\u00e9gimes \u00e0 prestations d\u00e9termin\u00e9es, afin que les prestations accumul\u00e9es ne soient pas converties en prestations \u00e0 cotisations d\u00e9termin\u00e9es ou en prestations moins \u00e9lev\u00e9es. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"7373856\" data-originallang=\"en\">\u00c0 notre avis, il suffit de supprimer compl\u00e8tement cette disposition.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/committees/finance/44-1/62/chris-roberts-1/",
    "politician_url": null,
    "politician_membership_url": null,
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "11861947",
    "document_url": "/committees/finance/44-1/62/",
    "related": {
        "document_speeches_url": "/speeches/?document=%2Fcommittees%2Ffinance%2F44-1%2F62%2F"
    }
}