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We public employees paid for our benefits including pensions. In the 80s pensions cost 16.2% of salary for public servants, 25.02% for us military. Would you rather give us those sums, or the benefits. One or the other, not both. Pensions are always accessible to employers. Even government has taken from its employees, presumably to look like a good guy. 

After 37 years of involvement, I can assure you that ALL pensioners, public and private, lose to their former employer. The losses to government seem to test the model to be used by both sectors. It is employers versus pensioners and employees, not public versus private.

How Canada could be even better.