Changes to the Old Age Security Program
It's done! The federal budget has been tabled. As promised, it is a four-year action plan to stimulate the economy, sustain Canada's prosperity, and achieve a return to balanced budgets. The budget highlights include spending cuts amounting to about $5.2 billion, achieved primarily...
17 Comments | Posted March 27, 2012 | 8:18 AM
Between population aging, the collapse of the stock market, near-zero interest rates, and higher life expectancies, will our children be able to afford our old age pensions?
Where are we, exactly?
Around 1970, when the retirement age was set at 65, life expectancy in Canada was 72 years. This meant that...
27 Comments | Posted March 8, 2012 | 6:49 AM
You have no doubt heard or read about the opposition's attacks on minimum sentences and on Bill C- 30, which would adapt the investigative powers of police services to fight cybercrime. My purpose today is not to take a position for or against either of these proposals but instead to...
23 Comments | Posted February 21, 2012 | 3:55 PM
Since the start of the study of Bill C-10, one aspect in particular has struck me -- the fact that many people have expressed opposition to the proposed legislation without really understanding what it is about. More often than not, C-10 has been criticized on the basis of erroneous information....
4 Comments | Posted March 30, 2012 | 4:30 PM