12. Stasis amidst change: Canadian pension reform in an age of retrenchment (original) (raw)

The ongoing debate on pension reform among policy-makers in East Asian, North American and Western European countries has been framed by a conventional discourse depicting a developing demographic time bomb as the elderly population grows in relation to the overall population (Béland and Waddan, 2000). Since the 1980s, these demographic fears as well as macroeconomic constraints related to economic globalization and regional integration have favoured the enactment of various pension reforms in East Asia, North America and ...