Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Harper putting prisons before seniors

The Globe and Mail:

NDP finance critic Peter Julian accused the Prime Minister of “forcing seniors to work” two more years before they can collect their pensions. He asserted that takes $30,000 away from low-income seniors.

“A single F-35 costs $450-million,” he said. “That would pay OAS benefits for 70,000 Canadian seniors. Their prison plan costs $19-billion. That pays annual benefits for 2.9 million Canadian seniors. Now Conservatives say costly prisons and fighter jets are their priority. We say seniors are more important.”


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