I had always been a bit skeptical of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s “hidden agenda,” but suddenly there it was with a major policy shift announced in Davos, Switzerland of all places, rather than the Parliament of Canada.
Most of this government’s pronouncements on their agenda are prefixed by saying that they ran on that platform in the last election and that they had a mandate, albeit from 39 per cent of Canadians, to implement it.
I can’t recall amendments to the Canadian Pension Plan/Old Age Security being discussed during the last election last year.
This announcement will do nothing to alleviate senior poverty it will simply delay it.
This government would do better to make some serious improvements to CPP which would alleviate the pension crisis rather than delaying the age at which Canadians can receive OAS.
Fred Girling
Surrey
