KINE 3350 Lecture Notes - Canada Pension Plan, Old Age Security, Pension
Document Summary
They are retired or thinking about it. In the 60"s there were the hippies, vietnam wars. In the 70"s you had the sexual revolution (before than it was unheard of to have sex before marriage) In the 80"s it was the feminist movement, animal rights etc. In the 90"s the career woman. Music they started rock and roll, folk music. Today they are the sandwich generation looking after kids and parents. They will refuse to leave the stage when they are old. The generation gap between us and our parents is far less than the baby boomers and their parents. Most baby boomers were very supportive of having them home. Canada is the world leaders at retiring early because we do have a very good pension plan and a social security net and we provide indpendence. Tier one: - all government pensions that can be accessed.