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@SeamusORegan - Seamus O'Regan Jr
Pierre Poilievre tabled a bill to ban vaccine mandates. Today we have to waste time debating it. That’s what Poilievre wants to talk about right now. Not affordability. Not inflation. Not housing. Not the war in Europe. Or the Middle East. Vaccine mandates.
@SeamusORegan - Seamus O'Regan Jr
When he was Prime Minister, Stephen Harper said governments shouldn’t touch the Canada Pension Plan. We agree. But do Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives? https://t.co/gU21jvjZvS
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The speaker highlights the decrease in senior poverty rates since their government took office in 2015. They attribute this improvement to increased Old Age Security (OES) and Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) benefits, as well as reversing the conservative policy of raising the retirement age to 67. The speaker mentions that the announcement regarding the retirement age change was made by the prime minister at the World Economic Forum in Davos. They also mention that the former prime minister stated that the Canada Pension Plan does not require any modifications. The speaker questions whether the opposing side agrees with this stance.
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Speaker 0: Mister speaker, the poverty rate among seniors has gone down significantly since we formed government in 2015, and that's because we've increased the OES. It's because we increased the GIS. It's also because we reversed the conservative policy of increasing the retirement age to 67. This is a policy that was not announced here in this chamber nor was it announced in this country. It was announced by the prime minister the day in Davos Wow.
At the World Economic Forum. We're mister speaker. He also added in that speech, the former prime minister, that the Canada pension plan does not need to be changed. On this side of the house, we agree. The question is, do they?