Policy Area
Priority Level
Last Updated
Labour
Short-Term
March 26, 2025
The Policy
The RPC would mandate the combination of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), Old Age Security (OAS), the Quebec Pension Plan (QPP), Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS), and the new Universal Basic Income (UBI) to a single program to maximize adminsitrative efficiency while also simplifying government-paid retirement benefits.
The Research
Note:
This will also be combined with other federal government benefit programs (e.g., Employment Insurance (EI)) and provincial government benefit programs (e.g., Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), Ontario Works (OW)).
Our Broader Stance on:
The purpose of our economy is primarily to create and maintain the necessities for society. We are lucky enough to have surplus in our economic production which can also provide for many of our personal wishes and desires, beyond just our needs. Building a strong, resilient economy is critical to ensuring this continues to be the case.
An economy is not a playground for the ultrawealthy capitalists to extract surplus value by exploiting labourers.