A clear alternative, that does not involve throwing tens of thousands
of public sector workers onto the dole — a move that would cost more than ten billion in lost tax revenue and increased state benefit payments.
Eroding pension plans by shifting risk
onto vulnerable employees and retirees with limited ability to absorb income cuts is quite in keeping with the Harper government's determination to lower the boom on
public sector workers and improve the profitability
of their corporate friends in the private
sector.