Finance committee  Yes. It's interesting. First of all, I agree that some people want to work, and other people have to keep working to look after their own retirement in the absence of a savings vehicle like a workplace pension. In Germany—and we're starting to study this a little bit more thoro

Finance committee  The bottom line is financial security in retirement. Whatever that means, it includes reducing expenses, and increasing income if they are at a marginal level. Certainly the GIS top-up was most welcome, but of course there are 1.7 million Canadians receiving GIS, which by definit

Finance committee  Yes, absolutely. First of all, we would like to see that legislation ASAP, because there are people still pushing back in this day and age against such legislation. The issue there is an issue of rights. Not everybody who has the occasion to keep working past 65 will take up th

Finance committee  We do poll our members. We have a bi-monthly newsletter that goes out to our membership. We get from 3,000 to 5,000 responses in a number of days, and we have asked them the question about mandatory retirement. There is strong support for getting rid of mandatory retirement. We s

Finance committee  More power to her.

Finance committee  Well, first of all, I think there should be incentives to help people keep working if they want to. That means that workplaces need to start introducing creative policies to keep older workers employed. It means that they have to look at caregiver leave. They need to provide ac

Finance committee  Yes, of course, but I think I've said before that despite the fact that these proposals are there, there still remains a problem for a lot of people.

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. I guess the first thing to say is that age 65, although the determinate of the definition of senior, does not mean that that person becomes non-productive and automatically a burden. I think that's an important one. Even with the Parliamentary Budget

Finance committee  Thank you very much. I represent CARP, a national non-profit non-partisan organization with 350,000 members and 50 chapters across the country. We advocate for public policy change that improves the quality of life for all Canadians as we age. Health care remains a top priorit

Finance committee  Of course they wouldn't be very pleased, but we're focusing on the fact that everybody's going to be facing rising costs, and this is the group of people who's least capable of dealing with those rising costs. We're looking for ways to help those who are now retired and seniors,

Finance committee  No, and part of the reason for that is that the Canada Pension Plan has matured. That has taken the double-digit poverty rate down to a single digit. You're absolutely right, this is a time to celebrate that success. But if you're one of the 260,000 people living in poverty, we

Finance committee  Certainly the recent changes are a major step forward. The category of dealing with seniors' poverty has not been addressed adequately in the past by several governments, so the fact that there was a massive amount of money addressing the poorest among the seniors was a massive s

Finance committee  The estimates are that 25% of Canadians provide heavy care. Those are the people who would benefit the most. Of course all of the others provide wonderful care, but it's the 25% that would be most important.

Finance committee  Two million Canadians would immediately see benefits.