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Jef Keighley

Jef Keighley is Co-Chair of the Sunshine Coast branch of the Council Of Senior Citizen Organizations (COSCO), an activist seniors' network of some 75 groups around BC. Jef retired as a National Union Representative with CAW Canada in 2005.  Following his retirement from the CAW, Jef served as the Executive Director of the World Peace Forum 2006.  He has been active in regional and international politics for 4 decades in the Vancouver's Lower Mainland. He currently resides in Halfmoon Bay on the Sunshine Coast.

Improve Canadian pensions now

As a result of the original limitations placed on the CPP, coupled with the failure of the private sector to make up the difference, it means that today too many Canadian seniors now live in poverty.