What is the Canadian Alliance?
It is a sharply focused organization with a single objective:
To achieve benefit parity for all individuals entitled to a British State Pension, regardless of their country of residence.
The present Alliance was formed in the early '90s with the amalgamation of an organization in British Columbia and another covering the rest of Canada, but with a nucleus of overseas members. The Alliance now draws its membership from right across Canada and over 25 countries around the world.
The amalgamation came about with the realization by both groups that we both had the same single objective and there was a real need to pool our very limited resources to give us the best chance of achieving that objective.
In 1994, the Directors decided to approach similar organizations in major Commonwealth countries and make the same point to them. This resulted in the formation of The World Alliance of British Expatriate Pensioners. This is a coordinated group of organizations of British Expatriates which draws its expanding membership from present and future 'frozen' pensioners in major Commonwealth countries and more than twenty-five other countries around the world where UK state pensions are also 'frozen'.
Our single focus is on the ending of benefit discrimination.
The World Alliance has no administrative facilities or staff. Its value relies on excellent coordination and communication between designated individuals from each country.
The Canadian Alliance is the largest organization with an increasingly strongly supportive membership base.
Clearly, we are engaged in a very difficult and costly battle with Britain. Just what we can achieve is only limited by the supporting funds and efforts of our membership.