Some Seniors Seriously Sufferring !

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Canada votes 2025 ! and Seniors represent over 20% of the vote

 

 

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Are Seniors positioned on the bottom of the Trudeau totem pole ?

 

Nov, 2019 - It seems as though Seniors have been invisible ever since the new Liberal Government was elected in 2015 ? They will finally be getting a break, ( but, there's a catch ) ? Seniors are about to finally receive some welcome relief in the form of a long overdue raise in their Old Age Pension, but a tricky caveat has been installed ? Instead of the normal age 65 rule, Seniors must now be over age 75 to get the raise ? This culling method appears to use ageism as a tool to eliminate over 4000 Seniors from a benefit ? Many legitimate Senior Citizens are feeling forgotten, disrespected, segregated and excluded by this Liberal Government and not looking forward to yet another year under them.

 

 

Critical grievances 2020 thru 24 :

 

1) Most Seniors are now retired, (only 1 in 5 still work full or part-time) and so they do not benefit from, nor qualify for, nor did they use any of the CERB rescue programs designed specifically to provide monetary assistance to large and small businesses and working folks ? A minority of Seniors ( those over age 75 ) had received a one per lifetime 500 dollar Covi crisis payment in 2021 but ( and it seems unconscionable during a health crisis) , the majority of Seniors, (those aged 65 to 74) were excluded from this benefit and didn't get it due to age ? Meanwhile, when many members of our society received 500 dollars each and every week while still allowed to earn a thousand dollars per month, many Seniors were living on less than a thousand per month in pensions and receiving no such assistance ? These emergency Covi-19 welfare measures doled out 210 billion to individuals and companies and created a massive deficit for 20/21 ? But, it is estimated that less than 4 % of these COVI caused deficits were made by Seniors since they didn't create it ? But unfortunately being that Seniors represent 20 % of the total Canadian population, they are responsible for 20 % of this debt even though they created less than 4 % of it ? It's like borrowing 4 dollars and then having to pay back 20 dollars ..,,,,,, aka loan sharking ?

 

2) A 2019 pre-election promise of a 10% raise in pension starting in July of 2020 was mean-spiritedly held back even though Covi came along in 2020 when this increase was desperately needed by all Seniors, incl those aged 65 and up ? *update* *The promised raise was finally implemented 2 year late in July of 2022. saving the Government billions ? and more billions were saved when the Government disqualified all Seniors age 65 thru 74.

 

3) A Sept/2019 pre-election promise to raise the Widows' Pension Survivors benefit by 25% was not kept and this benefit appears now as a pre-election falsehood that was only made to get the Senior vote ?

 

4) Although raking in billions in profits there's been no significant raise in C.P.P. benefits since the Libs first took power back in 2015, other than some loose change once-a-year COL adjustments ? Alberta began threatening to leave it in 2023.

 

5) A double punishment ? It seems to be discrimination when many of our Senior's spouses who were homemakers and raised children are excluded to CPP because they never had a opportunity to earn this pension, and also excluded from their GST rebate because of the current 1 only per household rules and as thus are left to live out their remaining years well below the minimum livable level ?

 

6) over 70% of the casualties of Covi were Seniors ? Of the 27,000 Canadians that have died from Covi about 20,000 of them were over 75, ( 75 is also the new minimum age used to qualify for the 10% raise in Old Age Pension) ?

 

7) After decades of systemic neglect, exploitation, abuse and suffering, the weakest and most vulnerable of all Canadian citizens had to be rescued by their own Army ? Yet no inquiry was ever ordered such as was the case with MMA ? Why was MMA given 100 million dollars for an inquiry but Long Term Care Nursing Home genocide has never been investigated and the families have never been offered such an inquiry or even an apology ?

 

8) It seems backwards when OAS and CPP are deemed taxable income by the Government but the incredibly generous Liberal child tax benefit is tax free ? Why would you keep taxing those that have already contributed so much and paid taxes for so many years and then let relatively new taxpayers who have not yet paid their fair share totally off the hook with a tax freebee ?

 

9) Since the Liberals first took power back in 2015, if you were to combine all OAS raises granted from back in 2015 until now in 2021 , ( this includes all Covi months ) the total increase to a pensioners monthly check after 6 years of Liberal governance wouldn't even buy him a daily cup of Hortons tea, ( your monthly check in 2021 is now approx 50 bucks more than it was in 2015 ) ? This seems negligent when considering the pandemic and the hefty cost of living increases ? update july 2022 - 10% raise for those over 75 finally started in july.

 

10) Seniors group treated like merchandise as hundreds of millions said to be designated for Seniors are never given directly to them but instead indirectly dispersed to many different individuals and organizations making a living off of Senior citizens and from related Government grants and funding ? And there is also the Minister of Seniors and her staff as well as an 11-member advisory board that must be paid ?

 

11) Seniors are not all brain dead and toothless ? Mental health assistance and Dentistry are expensive and many face a dental crisis as they age with no national dental plan or any help available ? update to 2024 - A limited dental plan is now available from the Government ?

 

12) Many Seniors are going hungry and cannot absorb massive rent increases ? A One bedroom in Halifax has risen from pre covi 800 up to 2100 in 2024 (more than their CPP and OAS combined) and still, no legislated guaranteed Monthly 'livable' inflation-adjusted income for each and every senior over the age of 65 ?

 

 

 

Since first elected in 2015, the Liberals have shown favoritism and unusual generosity towards their Canada Child tax credit benefit (baby bonus) but conversely have shown mean-spiritless and a frugal attitude towards Seniors ?

 

 

 

2015 Monthly OAP check to Seniors under Harper = $569.95

 

2021 current Seniors OAP check under Liberals - 626.49 (a total raise over 6 yrs of time of 56.54 or approx 10 % since Liberals took over )

 

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Baby Bonus or Child Tax Credit under Harper 2015 Monthly baby bonus check = approx 100.00 .

 

Baby Bonus or Child Tax Credit under Liberals - now over 600.00 ? This monthly increase in the baby bonus check is approx 500.00 more than Harper, or an increase of approx 600 % since Liberals took over ?

 

 

* note * The Justin Trudeau Liberals have renamed the baby bonus and given it a 600 % RAISE to lure middle class votes in the 2015 election !

 

it worked !

 

 

Sept 2019 - A pre election announcement . In a televised news conference delivered by the P.M. a new 10% raise is to be granted on Seniors pensions starting July of 2020. Unfortunately, ( in a first of its kind ), a highly unusual caveat is to be placed on the raise whereby the majority or 57 % of Seniors, (all those aged 65 to 74 ) are excluded and as such will not be allowed this Government benefit even though they have all earned their rightful place in Canada as Seniors ?

 

While claiming to be the party of systemic history cleansing and a party based on equality,inclusion, and diversity, the Liberals seem hypocritical when it comes to senior citizens after they appear to use division, ageism, discrimination, segregation, separation and exclusion in the first substantial raise to the Seniors old age pension since they assumed Government ? For the first time ever, many previously eligible Senior citizens will loose their right to receive a Senior's benefit ? An umbrellaed universality has always applied to any Canadian citizen who successfully reaches the age of 65 ? But the liberals have divided Seniors by splitting them into two separate and distinct entities based on age ? This culling maneuver serves to disqualify those Seniors aged 65 to 74 ( or approx 57 % of the current Senior population) from their entitlement because of their age ?

 

This new Liberal policy of separation and segregation could save the Government approx 4 million X 630 dollars per year. or at least 2,520,000,000.00 dollars.

 

July 2020 - Covi has arrived, and there will be no budget in this horrible year - There seems to be plenty of pandemic help for everyone else, but the 10% raise in OAS for Seniors has been withheld and not rolled out in July/2020 as promised, nor will it be rolled out for all of 2020, although the unreleased and held-back raise is often referred to as a current benefit given to help Seniors with their expenses during the pandemic year 2020 even though the raise was never released to them during the entire year and most can't use it and even if ever released as it only applies to 43 % of Seniors ?

 

^ UPDATE * Liberal Budget year 2021 -

 

Apr 2021 - Budget 2021 - It seems that the 10% raise in Seniors old age pension that was first promised to Seniors back in 2019 and that was suppose to start in July 2020, is now being described and represented here in budget 2021 as the major new benefit given directly to Seniors as their part of federal Budget 2021 (even though the raise is still withheld and will remain unreleased for the rest of 2021 ) ? Although described as a 'Seniors' benefit, it can't benefit all Seniors as implied, but can only help 43 % of the Canadian Seniors population if ever released ? Unfortunately politicians continue to refer to the raise as if it is already released and as if it is already being used and enjoyed by all Canadian Seniors which is misleading ?

 

 

 

^ UPDATE * Liberal Budget 2022 -

 

Apr 7th, 2022 - Nothing much new in this budget for Seniors ? But noticed an opportunity taken to go back in time to remember the lowering of the OAP age limit from 67 to 65 some 7 years ago ? This history is true but can it really be included as something new for Seniors in a new budget 7 years later ?

 

It seems that the still unreleased 10% raise in Seniors old age pension as first announced back in 2019 and scheduled to start in July 2020,, is once again being called upon in 2022 to represent the highlight and major benefit given to Seniors as their part of Budget 2022 ? This raise that has already been presented and used as part of last years 2021 budget hasn't even started yet ? It's difficult to understand how a Senior's benefit from last year, (and the year before), keeps on being repeated or duplicated over and over again like this, and repeat credit being taken for it on multiple occasions ? Shouldn't a brand new budget contain only fresh and brand-new original benefits and not old ones resurrected from past years that are just being repeated and re-used ? Surely it would be inappropriate to resurrect a past benefit already given out to Seniors in a past budget 2021 and already given the credit for, and to then take the credit for it all over again in 2022 ?

 

 

And not to be remiss, there was another promise made 3 years ago that would benefit many needy Seniors in the form of a 25 % raise in Widows' Pension Survivors benefits ? But after 3 years this pre-election promise is once again totally missing from yet another budget ? And so this promise looks to be totally forgotten about now that the election is over ?

 

 

**** NEW UPDATE June 2022 *******

 

June 23, 2022 news item - " Seniors, renters and low-income workers to get a boost from a new plan to help fight inflation "

 

Thursday June 23, 2022 - Deputy prime minister and the minister of finance Chrystia Freeland has announced a new $8.9 billion plan that will help Canadians deal with this year's record-breaking inflation. It seems that the still unreleased 10% raise in Seniors old age pension is once again being resurrected and is called upon to represent Senior citizens share and will be the all Seniors part of her new 8.9 billion dollar Affordability Plan even though it leaves out all seniors aged 65 thru 74 ? www.thestar.com/business/seniors-renters-and-low-income-w...

 

Thursday June 23, 2022 - The new, 'affordability plan' ?

 

Chrystia Freeland announces new $8.9 billion in aid to help Canadians deal with record-breaking inflation.. The (still unreleased) Seniors 10 % raise in OAS will serve as their part. But, but, now wait just a minute here,, how can this be ? When the 10% raise was originally promised to Seniors back in 2019 it was described simply by the PM to be a 10% raise in OAS for Seniors to start in July 2020 ? No one said anything about it being attached to, or a part of, or a share of, anything else ? This was strictly a private and independent matter made solely between the Seniors and the Government ? There was no mention of anything or anyone else, or any package deal, or that it would ever represent a portion or a share of any other different matter, nor any mention of it being aid given out to seniors in inflationary times, nor anything about any new 8.9 billion dollar Affordability Plan ?

This newly announced Affordability Plan is a separate and non-related outside issue to the original Seniors raise, and so unfortunately this means that the original promise that was made to Seniors back in 2019 is drastically changed now and is being used differently with a new and different definition ? The original 2019 raise was presented to Seniors in a private, straightforward, and unencumbered way, but it appears now that it has become connected to, or attached to, or bound up within issues that were never mentioned to Seniors back in 2019 ? And so, the original understanding held by Seniors in 2019 that it was a private benefit to be given to them only, has instead now changed and it has become a part of a different larger more multi-party social benefit matter in which Seniors are included, (and we presume that when this new Plan refers to 'Seniors', it includes all Seniors in the all-inclusive 65 + sense ?)

 

 

July 18, 2022, "Announcing 'new' support for Seniors"

July 21 st, 2022 - Minister of Seniors Kamal Khera proudly announces what she calls 'new' support for Seniors in a Facebook meeting ? She says this 'new' support is to be in the form of a 10% raise in the Seniors OAS monthly payments for those over 75 ? But, but, wait just a minute ? This is the same raise that was announced back in Sept of 2019 and was suppose to begin in July 2020 ? And this is just the same raise that we've all been waiting for ever since that time ? And so it is difficult to understand how the Minister can call anything that is 3 years old and has been 2 years late starting, as something that is new ? It's also hard to understand how anyone would consider this as 'new' support for "Seniors" with an 's' when this raise only applies to a small percentage of Seniors, ( only those over age 75) and it will exclude the majority of seniors (all those aged 65 to 74 )? Nevertheless, although it is 2 years late arriving , this announcement is most welcome and will certainly provide comfort to the 43% of eligible Seniors who qualify for the raise especially after many had given up all hope after waiting 2 years ?

 

July 27th, 2022 - The long awaited big Day has finally arrived ! The 43 % of eligible Canadian old age pensioners are today reporting that the very first-ever 10 % increase in payment in their pension checks that was promised to them some 3 years ago back in Sept 2019 has finally arrived.

 

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Nov 3rd, 2022,'the Fall Economic Statement'

 

In a press conference, the Government has announced its new 'Fall Economic Statement' in the form of a November mini-budget. Seniors are not mentioned in the announcement ? When queried about this omission the reply was that seniors over 75 will receive a 10 % raise in OAS ? Although seniors were expecting some much-needed new assistance in this new mini budget, unfortunately, there was just another repeat usage of the 10% Seniors OAS (stuck record) raise, (that unfortunately excludes seniors age 65 thru 74) ? Incredibly, this will be the 3rd consecutive budget that will use the same 10% Seniors raise in OAS as the Seniors share ?

 

"Surely never before in the field of Government benefits, has a benefit been used in so many different ways and in so many different matters and by so many different Liberal politicians on so many different occasions over so many different years. "

 

 

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news clippings,,

 

 

Trudeau in Kitchener Monday, Sept. 16, 2019 : New 10 % OAS raise to seniors will begin in July 2020,

www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberals-trudeau-seniors-electio...

 

2019-09-18 Trudeau promises Seniors that he will boost the CPP survivor's benefit by 25%

www.bing.com/videos/search?q=liberals+promise+to+raise+se...

 

August 10, 2020 - Trudeau seeks advice from Mark Carney on economic recovery plan,,

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/trudeau-seeks-advice-from...

 

COVID-19 update: genocide ? Canada now closing in on 50,000 known cases. Nursing homes account for 79% of deaths to date ? Call for an inquiry into long care nursing-home similar to the Liberals 100 million dollar MMA inquiry which ended up ruled as genocide ?

nationalpost.com/news/canada/covid-19-trudeau-says-in-man...

 

Ontario’ genocide ? Losses in the COVID-19 deaths is more than 5,000 Ontario nursing-home residents,

calgaryherald.com/news/covid-deaths-lawsuit-against-ontar...

 

In 2020, the consolidated Canadian general government (CGG), posted a historic deficit in the order of $325.5 billion.

www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/211122/dq211122a-...

 

Since coming to office in 2015, the Liberals have increased federal spending from $281 billion to $497 billion. The national population has increased 21%.

www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/gunter-liberal-achievements-...

 

Canada’s auditor general says a “minimum” of $27.4 billion in suspicious COVID-19 benefit payments needs investigated ? CRA announced they will not investigate $30 billion in suspicious CERB payments because “it wouldn’t be worth the effort"

nationalpost.com/news/politics/auditor-general-27-billion...

 

Seniors must endure al frustrating 2 year long waiting period after the Liberals hold back a promised 10 % raise for 2 years while they use it over and over again in a litany of different non-related Government financial matters that were never said to be part of the raise ?

www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52226068212/in/album-7...

 

2022 budget ? The withheld 10 % raise in old age pension that had already been given to Seniors in last years 2021 Liberal budget and not released, is resurrected and once again re-given to Seniors in a new different Federal budget in another year ? www.ctvnews.ca/politics/what-the-2022-federal-budget-has-...

 

Jun, 2022 - disguising the Seniors share ? Liberal minister of finance Chrystia Freeland misrepresents 57 % of Seniors when announcing an $8.9 billion plan to help Canadians deal with record-breaking inflation.www.thestar.com/business/2022/06/16/seniors-renters-and-l...

 

Nov 2022 - Some MP rapid rhetoric, Kamal Kould Khera less Minister of Seniors is questioned in the House of Commons ,

www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52508005196

 

July 18 2022 - How can a benefit first described as 'new' 3 years ago in 2019, and then described again as 'new' as help given to Seniors in the Covi pandemic 2020, and then described as 'new' again when given as a benefit for Seniors in federal budget 2021, and then described as 'new' once again when used as a 'new' benefit for Seniors in federal budget 2022, and then also described once again as a 'new' benefit for Seniors in a Liberal 9 billion dollar Affordability Plan, and then again as a 'new' benefit for Seniors in the Liberal Fall mini budget, ever be described as something 'new' by Kamal Khera when announcing, "Today we are announcing 'new' support for Seniors " ?? What's ??? It's like a stuck record playing over and over again ? www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=35310363329969&set=a.237...

 

March 31, 2023 - Seniors on fixed incomes, and rentering apartments desperately need urgent help now ? Rent for a 1 bedroom in Halifax goes from pre-Covi 750.oo in 2019, up to 2100.oo in 2024 ? Liberals offer help but place severe restrictions and strict limitations on yearly income allowable that are almost impossible to overcome on their one time only $500 rental assistance benefit ?

www.canada.ca/en/services/taxes/child-and-family-benefits...

 

Years of unimaginable abuse to Senior Citizens in Long Care Nursing Homes - Manitoba to disband office created to protect Seniors in long term care following a scathing report ? quote "What the report revealed, specifically as it relates to abuse of elderly, is sickening and repulsive," Relatives call for inquiry similar to MMA inquiry into decades of systemic abuse and the genocide of totally vulnerable and helpless Senior citizens ?

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-auditor-general-...

 

Oct 18 2023 - Bill C-319 - Minister of Finance, the PM and both Ministers of Seniors vote No to allowing Seniors aged 65 thru 74 the right to receive the same 10% raise in OAS as other Seniors currently enjoy ? But the Bill passes first reading anyway without them ?

www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/votes/44/1/422

 

Oct 22 2023 House of Commons - Many Seniors are also veterans . Questions to the Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs - Why is this Liberal Government banning Christian prayers such as the Lords Prayer on Remembrance Day ? In many cases these were the last words ever spoken to a dying soldier on the battlefield .

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B1fXX5gQMk

 

Why are Halifax Councillors tricking the poor, the sick and the most elderly by manipulating HRM transit fares in a way that makes vulnerable Seniors pay out of pocket for free-loaders to ride the HRM transit system ?

www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/48602924896/in/album-7...

 

Many Senior citizens enjoy the occasional recreational tobacco, however a small indulgence is now unaffordable for many Seniors due to punishing Government over taxation,

www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53088887466/in/datepos...

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CBC Apr 21 2024 - Are they blaming Seniors for the housing crisis ? Treasury Board President Anita Anand implies budgets have favored Seniors and this unfair budgetary imbalance may have cost the younger generation ?

www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53679216053/in/album-7...

 

CRA taxation year 2023 - While many Senior citizens struggle with the increasing cost of living, Liberals raise personal income taxes of low and mid-income Seniors ?

www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53679216053/in/album-7...

 

Some struggling seniors soon to shiver ? The Nova Scotia Tim Houston Government is apparently unawares of the cost of living struggle and rental crisis in Nova Scotia and they've decided to cut this years home heating rebate downwards to almost half of what it was last year ? The rebate is reduced to 600 dollars for winter 2024-25 ?

ca.news.yahoo.com/province-considered-multiple-options-he...

 

Jul 19th, 2024 - As Seniors old age pensions are being downsized the Canada Child Benefit has been up sized by 4.7% ?

www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canadian-families-will-receive-more...

 

In a groundbreaking move, CBC introduces gambling into their coverage of the Olympic games for the first time ever ?

2024 Paris Olympics - It appears that CBC has partnered with one particular online Casino company and BetRivers is running sports betting ads during its telecasting of Olympic events ? Is the inclusion of a Casino and Sports betting parlor running gambling ads during thr Olympic events appropriate to the principles and high moral standards exemplified by the Olympic Games ?

frontofficesports.com/ins-and-outs-of-betting-on-paris-ol...

 

Dec 07, 2024 , Department in charge of Old Age Security auditor doesn't know if the current payments are enough,

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/canada-old-age-se...

 

 

Jan 06, 2025 - Trudeau resigns as the prime minister,, Prorogues Parliament until March 24 2025,,

www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-news-conferen

 

 

Sept 9th 2025 - Seniors Protest planned to help seniors in the Okanagan,,

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac4eqfv6CzE

 

 

October 23, 2025 - Seniors living in fear . Premier Doug Ford proposes a new set of changes that will strip away key tenant protections, fast-track evictions, and open the door to ending rent control ! This is nothing short of a disaster for Senior citizen tenants who are barely making it on fixed incomes who are currently paying grandfathered rents ?

acorncanada.org/news/doug-ford-moves-to-end-rent-control/

 

 

 

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