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When ICAO and the US DOT amended maximum certificate age to 65, the age 60 BFOR argument in Canada for airline pilots was dead.

Having this historical debate again is like clinging to a non-COVID career progression path. It happened. Get over it.
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rudder wrote: Tue Jul 21, 2020 6:53 am When ICAO and the US DOT amended maximum certificate age to 65, the age 60 BFOR argument in Canada for airline pilots was dead.
100% correct, except for the fact, as Rockie mentioned, that it still applies to Air Canada pilots at age 65. No tribunal or court is going to force an employer to employ pilots that can't operate over 85% of the flights by reason of the fact that those flights pass into, out of, or through USA airspace.

Ironically, prior to the repeal of the mandatory retirement exemption, effective December 15, 2012, both Air Canada and ACPA filed, argued and appealed BFOR cases before the Tribunal, the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal, costing hundreds of hours of litigation and tens of thousands of dollars for all parties in lawyers' fees and court costs.

Air Canada's argument was that it simply could not manage its scheduling given the restriction of the "Over-Under" rule. It lost that argument at the Tribunal in both hearings. ACPA argued that to repeal mandatory retirement would impose undue hardship on the junior pilots held back as a result of the repeal. That BFOR claim was also dismissed by the Tribunal.

Then, after spending so much effort pursuing those arguments in litigation, after the exemption was repealed, both Air Canada and ACPA simply ignored their prior positions and continued flying. Air Canada instead imposed a bidding restriction, precluding F/Os from operating wide-body aircraft while the Over-Under provision was still in effect. That led to more litigation that was eventually resolved long after the restriction was no longer imposed.
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Check First Air or Air Yukon i'm pretty sure they still have captains over 70 flying. Nobody should force you to stop flying at X age if you want to continue and are still fit.
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garfield wrote: Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:09 pm Check First Air or Air Yukon i'm pretty sure they still have captains over 70 flying. Nobody should force you to stop flying at X age if you want to continue and are still fit.
There are many Canadian airlines that operate entirely within domestica airspace, especially in the North. Of course they are all subject to the present Canadian law, and without a bona fide occupational requirement related to USA airspace, they cannot deny employment on the basis of age to any pilot who is properly licensed by Transport Canada.
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Raymond Hall wrote: Mon Jul 20, 2020 12:38 pm
Bede wrote: Mon Jul 20, 2020 11:14 am ...I can't figure out where in the solicitor-client relationship you sit. Are you the solicitor or a party with a law degree who represents others by virtue of your law degree? Honestly, I worry about a costs award against you personally. I'm not trying to be a jerk, but I follow some of these claims and shake my head. I can't see an objective lawyer carrying this fight on as long as you have.
A lawyer doesn't have to be paid or even have a formal retainer agreement in order to be counsel of record for a party, or to be deemed to be in a solicitor-client relationship. The professional Code of Conduct, which is public and available for viewing on all of the provincial Law Societies' web sites is explicit in that regard. Holding oneself out as representing a client is sufficient, and certainly, filing proceedings on behalf of a litigant seals the relationship, regardless of retainer.

Costs are awarded against parties, not against counsel. There are situations where the Court may order costs against a lawyer personally, but those circumstances require some form of egregious behavior on the part of the lawyer, such as wilful contempt of court. And even in those circumstances, the awarding of costs against a counsel personally is exceptional.

You might have a point regarding any objective lawyer continuing to act on this issue as long as I have. Candidly I can state that my loving spouse shares the same sentiment.
Don't get me wrong. I am certainly not accusing you of any unethical conduct or in providing anything other than vigorous advocacy to your clients. From my limited experience (a handful of small claims court actions and traffic ticket defenses for family/friends*), the nuts and bolts of the legal profession is quite easy provided you have reasonable communication skills and a dedication to understanding the law and the process. However, I would never represent myself knowing what I know now, despite my love of DIY-everything. A lawyer's greatest contribution to their client is, IMO, their ability to offer their unbiased opinion. That's very difficult to do when there's an emotional investment in the cause or the client.

* Done many years ago, for free, for fun. Never lost.
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Raymond Hall wrote: Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:16 am
'97 Tercel wrote: Mon Jul 20, 2020 10:31 pm IMO mandatory retirement isn't discriminatory - a pilot's age is an occupational qualification, once you hit a certain number you're not qualified anymore.
Nice idea, but the law and science are against you.

Presently, in Canada, there is no mandatory retirement age for pilots, or for any other occupation, save for certain exceptions, provided by statute, such as the military.
Even the military, though not legally obligated to do so, has seen the light and is allowing pilots to extend beyond 60 provided they meet the medical & fitness standards. Rightly so. If someone can safely and effectively perform a job they should not be tossed based on age.
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Absolutely nothing wrong with flying to 65 and after that do it privately or corporate till you wish. There has to be a line drawn somewhere. There’s no perfect age number that will make everyone happy. My goal is to be out of the airlines by 60 if finances allow. I do want to move up the seniority list and have a nice schedule for the last 10 years of my career. Many of us have spent more than our fair share at the bottom while we see our more senior colleagues enjoy a better schedule as well they benefited from age 60 retirements in the past.

The Coronavirus is going to set our career advancement back by several years and force many out of the profession permanently.
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Bede wrote: Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:48 pm Don't get me wrong. I am certainly not accusing you of any unethical conduct or in providing anything other than vigorous advocacy to your clients. ... A lawyer's greatest contribution to their client is, IMO, their ability to offer their unbiased opinion. That's very difficult to do when there's an emotional investment in the cause or the client.
Understood and agreed. The solicitor-client relationship begins with the first contact. It is critical that the lawyer be honest not only with the client but with himself or herself, and keep a clear separation between the client's cause and the lawyer's personal interest or bias. That's why some lawyers will choose to represent clients like Paul Bernardo, Charles Manson, or Clifford Olson. It's not about the lawyer—it's about the law.

From the outset of the mandatory retirement proceedings I maintained two clear arguments on behalf of my clients. First, the retirement policy did not meet the requirements of the statutory exemption. Second, it was in both Air Canada's and ACPA's interest to adapt to the impending repeal as early as possible, both economically and ethically. Fourteen years later, I can't say that I have been persuaded that those arguments did not have substantial merit.
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Inverted2 wrote: Tue Jul 21, 2020 8:23 pm Absolutely nothing wrong with flying to 65 and after that do it privately or corporate till you wish. There has to be a line drawn somewhere. There’s no perfect age number that will make everyone happy. My goal is to be out of the airlines by 60 if finances allow. I do want to move up the seniority list and have a nice schedule for the last 10 years of my career. Many of us have spent more than our fair share at the bottom while we see our more senior colleagues enjoy a better schedule as well they benefited from age 60 retirements in the past.

The Coronavirus is going to set our career advancement back by several years and force many out of the profession permanently.
You should re-read what you just wrote. Your stated goal is to retire at 60, move up the seniority list and have a nice schedule for the last 10 years of your career. For that to happen people above you need to leave, and you are only willing to tolerate their presence on the list until they turn 65. When someone reaches that age you want them gone and you don’t care if they’re still capable of doing their job or not.

You want retirement based on age and that is now illegal. You’ll understand why it’s illegal the first time someone suggests you’re too old to do something you know you can still do better than them.
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I ain’t re reading anything. :lol:

A college kid recently asked me when I’m retiring and I’m only 42. I felt so triggered. :wink:
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Sharklasers wrote: Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:38 pm A lot of those gentlemen stayed past 60 in order to enjoy those 5 years at the front of the trough and max out their pensions
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You don’t see too many pilots crying in their soup? They CONSTANTLY bitch about it
'Bitch' is certainly the operative word here. Since when does anyone owe it to their coworkers to retire early so that someone else can take the job/salary/benefits they worked (and wish to continue working) for? As if you would, out of pure altruism, leave >$1mil on the table for the good of some snot nosed millennial you don't know? Get real. So you're life isn't exactly as gravy as you want it to be right this very minute? Boo effin' hoo. Maybe it has something to do with that wasted time and effort "CONSTANTLY" bitching about how other people's moderate success is hampering your own.
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shimmydampner wrote: Sat Jul 25, 2020 8:03 pm
Sharklasers wrote: Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:38 pm A lot of those gentlemen stayed past 60 in order to enjoy those 5 years at the front of the trough and max out their pensions
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You don’t see too many pilots crying in their soup? They CONSTANTLY bitch about it
'Bitch' is certainly the operative word here. Since when does anyone owe it to their coworkers to retire early so that someone else can take the job/salary/benefits they worked (and wish to continue working) for? As if you would, out of pure altruism, leave >$1mil on the table for the good of some snot nosed millennial you don't know? Get real. So you're life isn't exactly as gravy as you want it to be right this very minute? Boo effin' hoo. Maybe it has something to do with that wasted time and effort "CONSTANTLY" bitching about how other people's moderate success is hampering your own.
Millennial? LOL.
I’m am referencing the 50 year olds who went through 9/11, SARS, CCAA and then the rules changed and they got to enjoy an extra 5 years in stasis because the rules changed right when they were traditionally supposed to move up to the big seat.
Right or wrong I think those people have earned the right to gripe.
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“Stasis”? You must be joking. We all enjoyed rapid growth and advancement thanks to the most successful period in this airlines’ history.

But you are correct, you have a right to gripe about the end of age discrimination in Canada. Wonderful things those rights.
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The end of age discrimination? For who?

When can you exercise the privileges of an ATPL? When can you legally buy alcohol? When can you vote? etc etc

- Because it's not prudent to allow a 14 year old to vote, just like it's not prudent to put an 80 year old in charge of a passenger aircraft.


It's easy, but they still got it wrong because "guarding every right I think I may have, at any cost" is the narrative of the day right now.
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'97 Tercel wrote: Sun Jul 26, 2020 7:28 pm The end of age discrimination? For who?
For you, which you will one day belatedly realize...maybe. By the time you’re near retirement you’re as likely to take the lack of age discrimination completely for granted and conveniently forget you were all for it as a thoughtless youngster. Just like the committee tasked with fighting the change who remarkably embraced it once it was done and they reached that age.

As for your underage examples, your parents probably explained the concepts of maturity and responsibility many times while you were growing up. Ask them to explain it again.
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Rockie wrote: Sun Jul 26, 2020 8:05 pm
'97 Tercel wrote: Sun Jul 26, 2020 7:28 pm The end of age discrimination? For who?
For you, which you will one day belatedly realize...maybe. By the time you’re near retirement you’re as likely to take the lack of age discrimination completely for granted and conveniently forget you were all for it as a thoughtless youngster. Just like the committee tasked with fighting the change who remarkably embraced it once it was done and they reached that age.

As for your underage examples, your parents probably explained the concepts of maturity and responsibility many times while you were growing up. Ask them to explain it again.


So you have nothing really except to guess at my age. You can't have age discrimination for some and not for others.

We'll agree to disagree since "I'm guessing" you're fairly old and care most about that end of the demographic.
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'97 Tercel wrote: Mon Jul 27, 2020 3:48 pmWe'll agree to disagree since "I'm guessing" you're fairly old and care most about that end of the demographic.
One of your problems and the one most relevant to the issue of age based forced retirement is that you lack the imagination to see ever reaching that demographic yourself. When you do it’s going to come as a complete surprise.
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What?

Painful sentence to read
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Try reading it out loud, or get someone to read it to you.

Out of curiosity I ran that post through the Flesch Reading Ease test and it scored 62.2

"70.0–60.0 / 8th & 9th grade / Plain English. / Easily understood by 13- to 15-year-old students."

The Flesch-Kincaid readability test scored it as a grade 9.6 reading level.

I swear I'm not making this up.
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Raymond Hall wrote: Mon Jul 20, 2020 10:38 pm That is categorically incorrect. Air Canada and ACPA have both maintained that "the normal age of retirement" remains age 60. There is presently no penalty to the pension for retiring at age 60. There is only an option to stay. You can leave, with no penalty whatsoever, and no impact on your pension.
That is categorically incorrect. Those that will not have 25yrs of service by age 60 cannot retire without penalty at age 60. That privilege is now gone.
You can say whatever you want about rights etc. The fly-past 60 was nothing but a bunch of greedy bastards at the top, who got to their positions because those before them left at 60, deciding that they wanted more. It was greed. Pure and simple.
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bcflyer wrote: Sat Aug 15, 2020 7:55 am
Raymond Hall wrote: Mon Jul 20, 2020 10:38 pm That is categorically incorrect. Air Canada and ACPA have both maintained that "the normal age of retirement" remains age 60. There is presently no penalty to the pension for retiring at age 60. There is only an option to stay. You can leave, with no penalty whatsoever, and no impact on your pension.
That is categorically incorrect. Those that will not have 25yrs of service by age 60 cannot retire without penalty at age 60. That privilege is now gone.
You can say whatever you want about rights etc. The fly-past 60 was nothing but a bunch of greedy bastards at the top, who got to their positions because those before them left at 60, deciding that they wanted more. It was greed. Pure and simple.
Not just those without 25 years, although I agree they were hit the hardest.

My final average earnings will be less as a Narrow Body Captain, than as a Wide Body Captain. The pension calculator I’m looking at, applicable to me, results in about a 15% reduction in pension benefits as a result.

I know, I know, Raymond or Rockie will chime in and say that isn’t considered a real “penalty”. Penalties are a reduction from your entitlement. In my case there is no reduction from my entitlement. In my case the reduction in pension benefit is a result of lower final average earnings because I don’t get to be a wide body captain before age 60. The reduction is not because of a “pension calculation penalty”. I made less, I get less.

Or they will say I have this awesome opportunity to work 5 years longer to get the pension I was expecting. Awesome idea work longer for the same pension benefit. If I don’t like that idea it’s my problem. It’s my choice to retire with a smaller pension benefit if I don’t embrace working past 60.

Or they will say when I get to retirement age I will see the light. I am almost there. I want to retire more so every day. I’m obviously looking at the wrong light.

Or they will say it’s all ACPA’s fault. Should have negotiated age 65. That’s like saying I should have stuck the needle in my own eye. At least that way I could be careful to minimize damage to the retina. Right.

Thing is none of that matters.

Rockie and Raymond may have advocated for post 60. I am as sick and tired of all the self centred rationalizations and justifications as the next guy. But they didn’t actually do any of this to us. It was the Harper government that passed the legislation and created the harm to those wanting to retire at 60. It wasn’t Raymond or Rockie. They accomplished nothing in this regard. Their advocacy of post 60 has simply made them the poster children for the harm done to our retirement benefit.

Thing is no one cares except the individual harmed. Best thing you can do is stop reading Raymond or Rockies posts. Their constant explanations of why post 60 is a good thing just adds salt to the wound.

IOW. Suck it up buttercup. Stop lamenting over what was taken. Just plan for the new reality. If that means retiring later than I planned. Too bad. If that means retiring with 15% less benefit. Too bad.

No one cares.
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Or they will say (and did say until we were blue in the face) there is such a thing as the charter of rights and freedoms in this country, and only an utter fool would think Air Canada pilots are exempt.

That's the point isn't it? A bunch of utter fools thinking they could cover their eyes and pretend the end of age 60 wasn't going to happen or they could stop it. What hubris...? Try reading back Fanblade and see that most of our time was spent futilely trying to get the pilot group to recognize this little bit of reality bearing down on us and actually do something useful and intelligent with the time remaining. Waste of f**king time that was, wasn't it?

This was the easiest thing in the world to predict, and in fact on two separate occasions a senior AC management and senior ACPA leader both admitted to me while the pilots were flailing around trying to hold back the tide that age 60 was done. Finished.

Just too bad they didn't have the balls to tell the pilot group, or the pilot group didn't have the sense to figure out the blatantly obvious for themselves.

DO NOT blame Raymond Hall and I for your own failure to see what was both obvious and inevitable, or for trying in vain to get the pilot group to wake the f**k up to reality...I do not accept it.
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LOL,

Rockie you didn’t read my whole post again did you? At the end I mentioned don’t blame Rockie. :smt040

Many many people agree with you. I do in fact. The problem is that age discrimination was never what the conflict was about. If you believed that you weren’t in touch with reality.

The conflict was how to address the wealth transfer that was going to happen as a consequence of addressing age discrimination.

One side wanting the wealth transfer addressed. The other side wanting to keep the wealth transfer. Both sides pointing at each other and calling the other side greedy.

You were correct. The law came down on the side of inter generational wealth transfer on the grounds of mitigating age discrimination. Any attempt to mitigate the wealth transfer also age discrimination.

Think about that statement and how ironic it is. I read it again and started laughing it is so absurd.

Can you really blame people from fighting against something being taken from them, even if futile? That’s just normal human nature. Under the same circumstances I would fight it again on principle. Don’t get me wrong, ending any kind of discrimination should be paramount. But windfall gains and losses as a result should be addressed. Otherwise conflict is guaranteed. The crazy thing is in this case it created inter generational conflict when trying to address an age related discrimination. :rolleyes: We really are stupid people sometimes.

Back to my point. No one cares. You won. We lost. It’s like trying to remember who won the Stanley Cup two years ago. No one cares.

I promise I won’t be looking at my pension benefit every month and say “Hey where is the other 15%.” :lol: :lol:

Cheers Rockie.
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Fanblade wrote: Sat Aug 15, 2020 2:42 pm One side wanting the wealth transfer addressed. The other side wanting to keep the wealth transfer.
Bullshit. If that were even faintly true ACPA and the pilots would have tried to get some of the windfall the company enjoyed. I did not see any attempt by ACPA or the pilots to address the pay disparity between top and bottom. Please show me where that happened if you can.
Fanblade wrote: Sat Aug 15, 2020 2:42 pm You won. We lost.
F**k you. My career was just as delayed as yours was you whiny asshole.

We all lost because of shortsighted stupidity...period, stupidity that's obviously just as virulent now as it was eight years ago. If you want to hold someone responsible for you missing out take a good hard look in the mirror. Jesus guys like you piss me off.....
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Rockie wrote: Sat Aug 15, 2020 3:54 pm
Fanblade wrote: Sat Aug 15, 2020 2:42 pm One side wanting the wealth transfer addressed. The other side wanting to keep the wealth transfer.
Bullshit. If that were even faintly true ACPA and the pilots would have tried to get some of the windfall the company enjoyed. I did not see any attempt by ACPA or the pilots to address the pay disparity between top and bottom. Please show me where that happened if you can.
Fanblade wrote: Sat Aug 15, 2020 2:42 pm You won. We lost.
F**k you. My career was just as delayed as yours was you whiny asshole.

We all lost because of shortsighted stupidity...period, stupidity that's obviously just as virulent now as it was eight years ago. If you want to hold someone responsible for you missing out take a good hard look in the mirror. Jesus guys like you piss me off.....
Just in case you decided to edit what you wrote I have quoted you. So no one misses it. Well until the moderators see it of course.


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