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{
"time": "2007-03-02 10:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Pat Martin (Winnipeg Centre, NDP)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p data-HoCid=\"472934\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I thank the parliamentary secretary for outlining Bill <a data-HoCid=\"2521443\" href=\"/bills/39-1/C-36/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada Pension Plan and the Old Age Security Act\">C-36</a>. However, he did touch on the issue of Canada pension plan disability. I wonder if he shares the same frustration that we have had as members of Parliament when constituents come to us looking for help with their CPP disability. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"472935\" data-originallang=\"en\">Virtually everybody who applies for CPP disability gets turned down on the initial adjudication, no matter what the merits of their case would be. It is only on appeal, and usually on appeal with the help of their member of Parliament, that we ever break through this barrier, this complete wall that has been put up in terms of access to CPP. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"472936\" data-originallang=\"en\">I do not say this as a criticism for the current government. This has been the case for a decade or more. Somebody, somewhere within Canada pension plan disability, sent a memo around to the adjudicators saying to deny every claim and that if applicants want to come back and appeal, maybe they will consider the merits of it then. I defy anyone to show me a single Canada pension plan disability claim that has ever been granted on initial application. It does not exist.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"472937\" data-originallang=\"en\"> I would like to know what specifically the government could do about this or what it even may be doing in Bill <a data-HoCid=\"2521443\" href=\"/bills/39-1/C-36/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada Pension Plan and the Old Age Security Act\">C-36</a>. If there is some progress to be announced in association with the eligibility for CPP disability within Bill <a data-HoCid=\"2521443\" href=\"/bills/39-1/C-36/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada Pension Plan and the Old Age Security Act\">C-36</a>, I would like to hear about it.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"472938\" data-originallang=\"en\">Also, briefly, would he not agree that at this point in regard to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board it is time for beneficiary representation on that board?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"472939\" data-originallang=\"en\"> An 11-person board now controls investment worth $140 billion on behalf of Canadians and we have no representation on the board. It is made up of patronage appointments, largely, people who have no particular experience with investment banking. In fact, one of those 11 people is the Liberal that I beat in the 1997 election. His soft landing was to get put on this new Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. He was a history teacher.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"472940\" data-originallang=\"en\">I wonder if there is not some interest in putting a labour representative, a beneficiary representative, somebody to represent the Canadian public, on this all important investment board that is investing our money.</p>",
"fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"472934\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je remercie le secr\u00e9taire parlementaire pour sa description du projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"2521443\" href=\"/bills/39-1/C-36/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada Pension Plan and the Old Age Security Act\">C-36</a>. Ce faisant, il a abord\u00e9 la question de la pension d'invalidit\u00e9 du R\u00e9gime de pensions du Canada. Je me demande s'il partage l'exasp\u00e9ration que nous ressentons, \u00e0 titre de d\u00e9put\u00e9s, lorsque nos \u00e9lecteurs viennent nous voir pour demander de l'aide au sujet de leurs demandes d'adh\u00e9sion au r\u00e9gime de prestations d'invalidit\u00e9 du RPC. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"472935\" data-originallang=\"en\">Pratiquement toutes les demandes de prestations d'invalidit\u00e9 du RPC sont rejet\u00e9es au stade de l'\u00e9valuation initiale, ind\u00e9pendamment des m\u00e9rites du dossier. Une proc\u00e9dure d'appel, habituellement avec l'aide du d\u00e9put\u00e9, est n\u00e9cessaire pour forcer cette barri\u00e8re, ce mur infranchissable qui bloque l'admissibilit\u00e9 aux prestations du RPC.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"472936\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mon intention n'est pas de critiquer le gouvernement actuel. Les choses se passent ainsi depuis dix ans au moins. Un jour, un fonctionnaire responsable des prestations d'invalidit\u00e9 du R\u00e9gime de pensions du Canada a d\u00fb transmettre une note de service aux \u00e9valuateurs pour leur dire de refuser d'embl\u00e9e toute demande, en pr\u00e9cisant que si les requ\u00e9rants voulaient bien faire appel, les m\u00e9rites de leur dossier pourraient toujours \u00eatre \u00e9valu\u00e9s. Je mets quiconque au d\u00e9fi de me montrer une seule demande de prestations d'invalidit\u00e9 qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 approuv\u00e9e \u00e0 la suite de la premi\u00e8re demande. C'est impossible. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"472937\" data-originallang=\"en\">J'aimerais savoir ce que le gouvernement pourrait pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment faire pour corriger cette situation ou ce qu'il fait peut-\u00eatre dans le cadre du projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"2521443\" href=\"/bills/39-1/C-36/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canada Pension Plan and the Old Age Security Act\">C-36</a>. S'il y a des am\u00e9liorations \u00e0 annoncer quant \u00e0 l'acc\u00e8s aux prestations d'invalidit\u00e9 du RPC qui est pr\u00e9vu dans ce projet de loi, je voudrais bien qu'on m'en fasse part.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"472938\" data-originallang=\"en\">En outre, le secr\u00e9taire parlementaire ne pense-t-il pas qu'il serait maintenant grand temps que les b\u00e9n\u00e9ficiaires soient repr\u00e9sent\u00e9s au conseil d'administration de l'Office d'investissement du r\u00e9gime de pensions du Canada?</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"472939\" data-originallang=\"en\">\u00c0 l'heure actuelle, un conseil d'administration de 11 personnes g\u00e8re des investissements de 140 milliards de dollars au nom des Canadiens et ceux-ci n'y ont aucun repr\u00e9sentant. Les administrateurs sont nomm\u00e9s par copinage la plupart du temps. Ce sont des personnes qui n'ont aucune exp\u00e9rience dans les placements. En effet, parmi eux, il y a le candidat lib\u00e9ral que j'ai battu aux \u00e9lections de 1997. Sa nomination \u00e0 ce nouvel Office d'investissement du r\u00e9gime de pensions du Canada \u00e9tait son prix de consolation. Auparavant, il \u00e9tait professeur d'histoire.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"472940\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je me demande s'il n'y aurait pas un quelconque int\u00e9r\u00eat pour la nomination d'un repr\u00e9sentant des travailleurs, un repr\u00e9sentant des b\u00e9n\u00e9ficiaires, un repr\u00e9sentant du public au conseil d'administration de cet office qui investit notre argent.</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2007/3/2/pat-martin-1/",
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"h1": {
"en": "Government Orders",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Canada Pension Plan",
"fr": ""
},
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