Former CUPE senior research officer Kevin Skerrett and political economist Michel Lizee explain the proposed reform bill to pensions and how it will result in the transfer of risk from employers to employees Story Transcript JESSICA DESVARIEUX, TRNN PRODUCER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Jessica Desvarieux in Baltimore. In news out of Canada, […]
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Michel Lizee is a political economist specializing in pensions who recently retired from the Service aux collectivites de l'Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM). He has been a pension trustee designated by the UQAM's employees between 1983 and 2013. As part of his academic duties, from 1991 to 2013 he has been leading, in cooperation with a labor organization, several educational activities on pension plan administration and negotiation, as well as investment issues, for labor pension plan trustees, trade union activists, and staff. Since 2004, he has been actively supporting and is still actively involved in the establishment and development of an innovative multiemployer defined benefit plan for community groups, women's groups, and social economy enterprises, which won the Plan Sponsor Award from Benefits Canada in 2010. He holds an MA in political economy from Carleton University (1995), where his master's research essay focused on pension reform in Canada since 1980.
