Canada's First National Pension Legislation Was the Old Age Pension

question 36

Multiple Choice

Canada's first national pension legislation was the Old Age Pension Act of 1927 which

• A) copied the Elizabethan Poor Laws
• B) targeted workers 65 and over
• C) omitted women
• D) was administered by the federal government
• E) covered First Nations peoples

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