Gravelbourg & District Tribune

Just Peace Advocates (Mouvement pour une paix juste) has been reviewing Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s (CPPIB) investments.

 

As of 31 March 2026 (fiscal year end 2025/2026), CPPIB had over $54 billion invested in 120 companies complicit in Israel’s genocide, war crimes, and apartheid. This represents 6.9% of CPPIB’s total holdings in 25/26.

 

The Canada Pension Plan (CPP) is the Canadian national social insurance plan (with the exception of Quebec that has CDPQ). CPP is funded through contributions from employees, employers, and self-employed individuals – aka, the residents of Canada. CPP funds are managed by the CPP Investment Board (CPPIB) that focuses on “maximizing long-term returns without undue risk of loss.” In other words, CPPIB decides how to invest the contributions of millions of individuals in Canada. In short they take a cut from all of us and at retirement it “provides income replacement to contributors and their families in the event of retirement, disability or death.”

 

The board collects this money and does the investment for the million of contributors.

 

Do these investment experts not realize that you can invest in ethical companies? Why would they think we want to promote companies that are making money by killing women and children?