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Perhaps someday our grandchildren will learn the stories of the political heroes that vanquished the Great Canadian Pension Crisis.

They won’t be very interesting stories. But the politicians playing hero would have us believe that the enhanced Canada Pension Plan, which the Trudeau government unveiled in detail this week, was truly historic. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has already decided it will be a legacy of hers, perhaps for lack of other options.

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Wynne had declared retirement security “a national crisis” that absolutely “needed to be tackled.” And it was her threat to launch an Ontario pension plan so economically reckless that the federal Liberals were forced to come up with an alternative to appease her, dragging the other provinces along into an enhanced CPP, something Wynne has been giving herself plenty of credit for. She would not stand for anything less than significant change, demanding “an enhancement that’s going to solve challenges of people in a real way.”