Poll: Should the pension eligibility age rise to 67 from 65?

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  • John Newton - 12 years ago

    My wife and I just gave resignation notices to our employers for next December, as I turn 65 in February. We have sold the family home and sent all the profits (our life savings) to a builder, to have a small retirement home constructed. Being forced to wait another two years would be a disaster as we'd have no jobs, no income, a home sitting empty in a foreign country, and be forced to live with my daughter for two years. Nobody will give us meaningful employment at this age. Born in Canada, worked forty six years, and this how we are being treated, it's like getting a jail sentence for something we didn't do.

  • Sam Porter - 12 years ago

    When I read about the millions of dollars that these politicians blow away at will and now tell me that the Old Age Security is under review, it leaves me infuriated. I have worked my entire life and never disputed the fact that I had to pay taxes. I was not one who stood in line for handouts or had tax forgiven. I retired after working in excess of thirty years for the same company only to have them g0 into bankruptcy and lose a large portion of my pension. Now this! Is it any wonder that we read about people going postal! It is time for the citizens of this great country to take control. These duds that we elect work for us. Time to terminate some of these career politicians, senators and bums that we feed.

  • Christine Bergman - 12 years ago

    We have as a country paid enough taxes on every dollar we have ever earned mostly to the
    Federal Government. Enough people have been forced into early retirement with very little or no CPP that the light of the tunnel is turning 65 . I think there will be a TOTAL revolt
    in the country if they try to change it. If our country is in such dire straights, they have mismanged the taxes that we as taxpayers have entrusted them with.

    Stephen Harper I am terribly dissapointed in you that you would take this tactic with our
    aging population, all these people have paid for him to be where he is in fact all levels of
    government exist because of the taxes we pay and have paid. There is such a saying

    *That in God we trust*

    I have always trusted the Government in my 40 years of full time work and 50 years for my husband.

    *That in Government we Trust*

    We as taxpayers should be able to do that.

  • Peter Dunn - 12 years ago

    Many things 1st get rid of the Senate, cut out aid to countries that dont need it and gut pensions for life for the so called leaders. There is so much wrong with our spending like $90 million missing in Indian funds.

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