I'm going to take that as a yes.
The 2011 Conservative Party election platform unequivocally states, “we will not cut transfer payments to individuals or to the provinces for essential things like health care, education, and pensions”. Less than one year later, they introduced cuts to the old age security, basically, by increasing the age of eligibility from 65 to 67. I wanted to ask you why the Conservatives would raise the age of eligibility for OAS from 65 to 67. What was the point of that?
Furthermore, what impact would that have had on our seniors had the Liberal government not reversed it in the very first year it came to office? What impact would it have had on our seniors if the Conservative cuts to OAS had been allowed to continue?