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LETTER: Seniors treated fairly compared to younger Canadians

'I like my free health care, my free drugs, the ability to split my pension income with my wife'
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PelhamToday received the following letter to the editor from reader Thomas Crawford. You can share your opinion by submitting letters to [email protected]

In Saturday’s PelhamToday you published a letter from Peter Voss with the headline, “Creeping Liberal Taxes are making Singh look good.”

The theme of the letter was that Federal Government taxes discriminate against seniors. Mr. Voss states that the federal debt is now about $31 trillion. Actually, it’s closer to $1.2 trillion. (It's the U.S. federal debt that is about $31 trillion.)

Mr. Voss says he’s been retired for 16 years, with no appreciable increase in his pensions in that period. If he’s talking of OAS and CPP, both are indexed to inflation. I’m a senior, too, and I got the raises.

I think Mr. Voss should get his facts straight before he mouths off further about how he’s being mistreated by governments in Canada.

Personally, I like my free health care, my free drugs, the ability to split my pension income with my wife, the one-off Federal Government payments during COVID to help seniors, and so on.

I think that, relative to younger Canadians, we’re being treated fairly.

Thomas Crawford
Fonthill