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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All
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To: average joe who wrote (16336)3/3/2013 5:16:07 AM
From: Siber  Read Replies (1) of 37788
 
Unrelated to what you posted but in response to your quoted text.

What a great country Canada is.

Last week I discovered it doesn't treat it's own citizens very well either.

I moved to WA State several years back and I recently applied for OAP and was shocked to learn that I will be receiving 1/40 of the normal OAP for every year I lived in Canada after my 18th birthday. I'm three years shy of the 20 years required. The first 18 years of my life don't count.

I've worked all my life in Canada, even after I moved to the States, right up until my retirement, and have paid into CPP ever since its inception. I got dinged there too, for reasons that were never made clear to me, but not as badly as OAP will be dinging me.

I've never worked in the States and they know I'm not entitled to any American benefits.

How can they treat their own people this way?

I feel like asking them for all the years of EI payments I made throughout my working career, since I never used it. That'll never happen of course.

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