Money! Some of these guys have figured out how to get modestly wealthy by being "gay".
77 eh...won't be long and he will get a good long vacation in a 'warm climate'.
I can hear him/she/it singing "San Fransisco hear I come."
Canada is liberal heaven. I'm still waiting for all of the defeated democrats to move there.
Wait a sec now...in a sodomite "marraige", would the survivor be a widow or widower?????? Widowette, possibly?
This is why I object so strongly(aside from the obvious moral reasons) to gay marriage. They will get insurance benefits, they will be able to adopt children, they will get survivor pensions, etc. That is wrong. the liberal argument that we should be more like Canada is a horrifying suggestion. I wish they would all just move there.
Oh, cheeze, cry me a river.
Did or didn't Ron Shearer, who "spent his working life paying into the Canada Pension Plan", know what same sex cohabitants [a.k.a. homosexual partners] were ineligible for survivor's pension?
-- If he knew they ,as homosexuals, were ineligible why didn't he direct money into an annuity or some such for Hislop? Or insure himself enough to assure Hislop a comfortable life after his [Shearer's] death? The fact that Shearer might have been required to contribute to the Canadian pension plan -- as with out Social Security -- is no excuse. An impediment, yes. And excuse, no.
-- What steps had/has Hislop taken to cushion is own old age? Even if he did not have the mind, inclination or ability to feather his own nest as Shearer's partner for more than a quarter of a century, surely they would've/should've gone over questions and plans re: "the future", just like any other married couple.
-- And, finally, if Shearer continued paying in to the pension plan and even after decades still did not know that Hislop would not be eligible... why, oh, why should the Canadian tax payers be forced to pony up for his ignorance?
Look for the 9th Circuit down here to use this as a precedent.