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As of April 2005, Health Insurance BC is the new name for administrative operations of the Medical Services Plan (MSP) and PharmaCare, including Fair PharmaCare. On 16 September 2016, Michael de Jong , Minister of Finance for British Columbia announced that the government will spend $500 million on housing affordability , while also canceling ...
BC Pension Corporation is one of the largest pension plan administrative agents in Canada with assets in excess of CA$123.6 billion. [1] [2] Created in 2000 with the passage of the Public Sector Pension Plans Act, the corporation provides pension administration services on behalf of British Columbia's College, Municipal, Public Service, Teachers', and WorkSafeBC pension plans for each of their ...
The Canada Pension Plan (CPP) forms the backbone of Canada's national retirement income system. All those employed aged 18 or older (and their employers) must contribute a portion of their income (matched by their employers) into the CPP or, for Quebec residents, the Quebec Pension Plan (QPP).
Ontario regulates approximately 8,350 employment pension plans, which comprise more than 40 per cent of all registered pension plans in Canada [1] It was originally enacted as the Pension Benefits Act, 1965 (S.O. 1965, c. 96), and it was the first statute in any Canadian jurisdiction to regulate pension plans. [2]
AXA PPP International was the trading name for AXA PPP healthcare's international health insurance division, which was later rebranded as AXA - Global Healthcare on 1 January 2017. The company bought the online insurer Swiftcover , notorious for its controversial Iggy Pop TV advertising campaign which was subsequently banned.
In 2006, the Government of British Columbia threatened to shut down one private clinic because it was planning to start accepting private payments from patients. [350] Since 2008, Dr. Brian Day has been suing the British Columbia government on the basis that the Canada Health Act is unconstitutional. In 2016, the Government of Quebec was sued ...
As noted in the 27th Actuarial Report on the Canada Pension Plan, if one uses the "closed group approach", the plan has an enormous unfunded liability. As of December 31, 2015, the CPP's unfunded liability was $884 billion, which is the difference between its liabilities ($1.169 trillion) and its assets ($285 billion).
It started by managing assets previously managed by British Columbia's Ministry of Finance. BCI was modeled after other Canadian pension plan investment managers such as Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. [2] [3] [4] In July 2016, BCI formed QuadReal Property Group to manage real estate investments. This was in line with other Canadian ...