Nobody’s suggesting we take away your OAS. Just retirees with six figure annual household incomes who clearly don’t need the help.
We’d use that money in part to increase your OAS payments.
Max Fawcett
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Then they wouldn’t be affected by this proposal. Did they even read the piece?
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That’s not what I did, though. I’m pointing out the inequities here — ones that tend to favour the Boomers.
They can fix it if they want to. Do they?
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Your profile says “ad hominem = block”, so will you be blocking yourself here?
I was one of the federal NDP’s biggest critics over the last two years. Wrote many columns about it. They completely own their failures.
Anything else?
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The proposal in question literally increases benefits for low-income seniors.
Just not higher-income ones.
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Canada’s “senior promise” is starting to look like a glorified ponzi scheme. Why the Baby Boomers need to step up and fix it — and why Mark Carney can convince them to do it. #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/18/o...
How Mark Carney and the baby boomers can save Canada
The prime minister ought to challenge the most self-interested generation in history to step up for their country — elbows and all — and make a sacrifice.
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Canada’s “senior promise” is starting to look like a glorified ponzi scheme. Why the Baby Boomers need to step up and fix it — and why Mark Carney can convince them to do it. #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/18/o...
How Mark Carney and the baby boomers can save Canada
The prime minister ought to challenge the most self-interested generation in history to step up for their country — elbows and all — and make a sacrifice.
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In which Andrew Coyne eviscerates pundits railing against the #Cowichan Tribes vs. Canada decision. Wow!
#bcpoli #cdnpoli
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
No paywall: archive.ph/ywUEh
Opinion: To recognize aboriginal title is not to abolish property rights, but to uphold them
Consequences of decision on the Cowichan’s claim are far-reaching, though not as cataclysmic as claimed
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It’s a very good column.
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Me, on Real Talk with Ryan Jespersen, talking about the trade war, Air Canada's lockout, and even agreeing (!) with a Lorne Gunter column. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SJK...
Max Fawcett: Canada Isn't Losing the Trade War...Yet
YouTube video by Real Talk Ryan Jespersen
