Well….Bill C-65…“the pension protection bill.”
The bill proposes moving the
fixed election date of the
45th Canadian federal electionfrom October 20, 2025, to October 27, 2025. According to the federal government the election date move is intended to avoid the federal election coinciding with
Diwali, and the
2025 Alberta municipal elections.
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One impact of this change is on
Member of Parliament pensions.
MPs need at least six years of service to qualify for the Member of Parliament pension plan. The one-week delay in the election date means that 80 MPs first elected in the
2019 Canadian federal election, held on October 21, 2019, will reach this six-year mark, qualifying for a pension, on the new proposed election day of October 27, 2025.
The change is expected to primarily benefit Conservative MPs, followed by Liberal, NDP, and Bloc Québécois MPs elected in 2019.
BUT Conservatives voted against this Bill.
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Last week, MPs debated Bill C-65 in committee, in what Conservatives have dubbed “the pension protection bill.” Moving forward the date of the election ensures that 22 Liberal and six NDP MPs, whose pensions vest after the Oct. 20 date, get their full pensions of about $78,000 a year.
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(Members of Parliament qualify for full pensions after six years of service. Those elected in 2019 will only qualify for full pensions a few days after the Oct. 20 date, but “Shhhhhhh….!!!)
The attempt by Liberals and New Democrats to push back the fixed date for the next election — from Oct. 20, 2025 to Oct. 27, 2025 — has critics slamming the two parties for feathering their pension nests ahead of what polls predict will be a massive forced retirement for many of their MPs. Last...
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View attachment 25781The below video is from Seven Months Ago already…& this is like back page news?:
Section 50 of the
Constitution Act, 1867, and
section 4 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms limit the maximum life of a federal parliament to five years following the return of the
writs of election from the previous general election.
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39th Canadian Parliament passed
An Act to Amend the Canada Elections Act, which received
royal assent on May 3, 2007.
[3] It requires that each general election take place on the third Monday in October, in the fourth calendar year after the previous poll, starting on October 19, 2009.
View attachment 25779During the legislative process, the
Liberal-dominated
Senate added an amendment listing conditions under which an election date could be modified, in order to avoid clashes with religious holidays, municipal elections, and referenda; but, the
House of Commons, led by
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's
Conservatives, rejected the amendment and the Senate did not pursue it.
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Assuming that a government does not fall on a non-confidence vote and that the prime minister or premier does not request an early election, the fixed election date legislation requires the next election for each jurisdiction to be held on the following dates:
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