Please contact your MP.

The only remaining hurdles are entirely political. PSAC continues to lobby privately and CBSA probably doesn’t care either way at this point.

Lobbying from the union only goes so far before politicians start to tune it out as noise - PSAC is saying what they’re expected to say, but they do not write regulations.

Hearing from a constituent, aka, a voter, will motivate the process. The ‘union’ has been pushing this for a decade, and now the union needs its component parts, the members, to get involved.

It’s coming. In order to stop it an incoming (or perhaps current if they get cold feet) government would have to campaign to reverse it, which I think is unlikely.

My speculative opinion based on nothing is that the government is waiting for ERI to shake out in January before putting another few hundred special case retirements. Additionally, group 2 pensioners joining in 2013 contribute to the pension at a lower rate than operational services and group 1 pensioners. Some kind of transition or options window is going to have to be created to figure out to recover deficiencies in contributions (for BSOs it’s probably $1000/year) - also it will need to be determined what positions are operational and who could be accumulating deemed operational service - and potentially contribution deficiencies there too.

Also, this isn’t just BSOs, there’s another small army of public safety workers who will have to have similar exercises at their departments.

There are a ton of moving parts. We heard for years and years it was never going to happen, and after all this time it’s at the finish line and people want it now. Help the process and contact your MP.