As a retired Civil Servant I begin to get a picture of what it must be like to be black or Jewish or Muslim, everything wrong with our tax structure is our fault. It is suggested that we are costing the government billions of dollars extra without one shred of supporting documentation.  Just how much is the pension costing Canadians over what is being contributed by workers.

I do know that probably twenty years ago there was a substantial surplus in the pension account (billions of dollars) which was scooped by the government of the day to put into general revenue over the objection of the Public Service Unions.  In taking the staff contributions government promised they would make up any future deficit. This they would probably like to forget today. 

Nowhere in this article is there any financial data to support the assertion that this is costing tax payers anything more than what is being contributed.

The terms and conditions of employment should not be changed retroactively.