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Ecology Action Centre calls for immediate implementation of Coastal Protection Act | SaltWireThat chant could be heard downtown on Wednesday as members of the Union of Taxation Employees rallied in front of the Canada Life Assurance Company office on Kent Street, denouncing ongoing issues with public servants’ health-care plan.
. A Canada Life spokesperson says it has paid three million claims since then and is responding to 25,000 contacts every week from federal government employees and retirees. As of mid-September, 99 per cent of plan members had been enrolled.accessing services, reaching customer support and getting claims reimbursed.
“They have until January 1 to get their act together, supposedly, but right now, today, people are suffering,” Brière said, adding he was told by a higher-up at Canada Revenue Agency that Canada Life was planning to hire more staff in November. “It’s a catastrophe,” Brière said. “We already had a rough time this year with a strike, we had a rough time with our paycheque, and now it’s with our coverage of meds. OK, that’s enough.”
“That’s the beginning, but one meeting is far from enough,” Brière said Wednesday. “While they’re studying, in parallel it’d be nice that Treasury Board pushes Canada Life to take concrete action.” Before July 1, Anand said, the government was on top of Canada Life’s contractual obligations as well as how some of the “unpredictable difficulties” were to be addressed. She said her team remained focused on those two areas.
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