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In consultation with its lawyers, FSNA has thoroughly studied in detail the Ontario Superior Court’s decision rendered on this case. At a teleconference on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 the FSNA... Read more

In a verdict rendered on November 20, 2007, Justice de Lotbinière Panet of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice dismissed the actions challenging the federal government’s decision to take t... Read more

The Treasury Board has announced the increase in indexing to be applied to Public Service, Canadian Forces, and RCMP pensions in January 2008. The rate for 2008 will be 1.8 per cent.

Ottawa, ON – Dennis Jackson has been re-elected as the National President of the Federal Superannuates National Association (FSNA) at Convention 07, the association’s fourteenth triennial conve... Read more

Click hear to see the member Bulletin 20, including changes to the PSHCP governance structure that took effect... Read more

Final arguments began in the pension surplus case on May 1, 2007. They were originally expected to last from one to two weeks. However they were finished in no more than three days. Now that the co... Read more

FSNA is extremely pleased to acknowledge that its Executive Director Jean-Guy Soulière has been appointed Chair of the new National Seniors Council that will advise the federal government on senio... Read more

Day 15 (April 2) of the pension surplus trial kicked off with the recall, at the request of Justice Panet, of Scott Milne, an expert in public-sector accountancy and former auditor with the Office ... Read more

A former government auditor testified in Court that the surplus in the public service, RCMP and Canadian Forces pension accounts have now increased to $42.7 billion.

Scott Milne, an expert i... Read more

FSNA National President congratulates the Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty for following through on his commitment to include in the federal budget measures that are beneficial to older Canadians a... Read more

An actuarial expert testified that assets were transferred from the Public Service Superannuation Account to newly created pension plans of local airport authorities, NAV Canada and Canada Post, pr... Read more

The trial on the federal pension accounts surplus resumed on February 26 before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice with the opening arguments from the lawyers representing the unions and the ret... Read more

The trial on the federal pension accounts surplus is to resume on 26 February before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, in Ottawa. The presentation of evidence and expert testimony is scheduled... Read more

FSNA qualified as “incomplete and unprofessional” a report issued on January 17, 2007 by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business entitled Read more