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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/social-security-tribunal-backlog-includes-terminally-ill-others-deep-in-debt/article21864630/

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…”Petrow credits his representative throughout the appeal process — Allison Schmidt, a Regina-based pension-disability case manager — for navigating a complex system.

“I only have one word to describe Allison, and that is ‘angel.“’

That “angel,” meantime, has been receiving letters from the tribunal suggesting that she is “unauthorized” to help CPP disability applicants make appeals to the new panel under law society rules and regulations that differ from province to province.

In Ontario, for example, a representative must be a lawyer or a paralegal. Other provincial law societies have no such requirements.”…

So, what I’m inferring here is that anyone who has invested themselves throughout their career choices and have become ‘knowledge based experts with experience’ are worthless. No matter what career path they have followed. In this case, pension-disability system.

It’s one thing and immediately obvious when someone professes to know something and argues their competence. Quite another to deny assistance to fast track backlogs when clearly the evidence of competence is on the table.

Lawyers like law enforcement have better things to do with their time on more serious matters.

Change your policies where merit is clearly due.