Canada moves forward with digital identification for federal benefits seekers!

Changes will be made to the Department of Employment and Social Development Act to 'enable the delivery of more integrated and efficient services across government.'

The Canadian government will move ahead with digital identification for anyone seeking federal benefits, including seniors on Old Age Security.

Canada’s Department of Employment, in a recent note in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s 2025 budget, said that changes will be made to the Department of Employment and Social Development Act. The goal of the changes is to “enable the delivery of more integrated and efficient services across government

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Canada moves forward with digital identification for federal benefits seekers!
Changes will be made to the Department of Employment and Social Development Act to 'enable the delivery of more integrated and efficient services across government.'
The Canadian government will move ahead with digital identification for anyone seeking federal benefits, including seniors on Old Age Security.
Canada’s Department of Employment, in a recent note in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s 2025 budget, said that changes will be made to the Department of Employment and Social Development Act. The goal of the changes is to “enable the delivery of more integrated and efficient services across government.”
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Elbows Up !!
Let's re-elect the LIBERALS who give BILLIONS TO UKRAINE and immigrants.....but seniors need to not receive their Old Age Security payments that they paid into for 40+ years.
Liberals urged to cut Old Age Security spending in upcoming budget Kershaw said that OAS has drifted too far from its original aim of 'protecting insecure retirees' to 'padding the comfort of affluence'
OTTAWA — Advocates are calling on the CARNEY LIBERALS to start with the biggest line item when deciding where to cut spending ahead of the upcoming federal budget.
Paul Kershaw, the head of generational fairness group Generation Squeeze, told reporters in Ottawa that the $80-billion Old Age Security (OAS) program desperately needed to be reined in, with federal spending hurtling toward a crisis point.
“(OAS) is now the single biggest driver of federal deficits. It costs $42 billion more than a decade ago and adds more to red ink than child care, than PharmaCare, than dental care, or defence,” said Kershaw.
Kershaw noted that the interim budget watchdog said in a recent committee appearance that the federal government was spending at an unsustainable rate.
Generation Squeeze is calling for OAS payments to be reduced for retired couples with incomes over $100,000. Under the current rules, couples with incomes of up to $182,000 qualify for the full $18,000 benefit.
The group says its proposal would save Canadians $7 billion a year, while increasing the benefit for some single seniors.
Kershaw said that OAS has drifted too far from its original aim of “protecting insecure retirees” to “padding the comfort of affluence.”
“Let’s be clear, helping poor retirees is a duty. Subsidizing affluence is a waste,” said Kershaw.
He added that the billions saved from scaling back benefits for better-off seniors would be enough to lift most of the 400,000 Canadian seniors living in poverty to an adequate standard of living.
Kershaw also called on PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY to reject a Bloc Québécois-led push to boost OAS payouts for younger seniors, between the ages of 65 and 74.
“PRIME MINISTER CARNEY’S first budget must resist the retiree lobby and the Bloc Québécois. Both are pressing Ottawa to pour billions more into (OAS) in ways that would do too little to help seniors that need it, and too much for those who don’t need the help,” said Kershaw.
Under the Bloc’s proposal, the maximum OAS payment for 65 to 74-year-olds, currently around $740 per month, would go up by 10 per cent to bring it in line with the maximum payment for seniors aged 75 and over.
A Bloc motion to increase OAS for all people aged 65 and up was adopted by the House of Commons last year, with the support of the Conservatives, NDP and Greens.
Bloc finance critic Jean-Denis Garon put the OAS proposal at the top of a list of six non-negotiable demands for the federal budget last week.
The Liberals are three seats short of a majority, and could use the Bloc’s 22 votes to give them some breathing room in passing the budget, set to be introduced on Nov. 4.
The Bloc’s OAS proposal would add roughly $3 billion per year to federal spending, according to figures from the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer.
Carney has said the budget will deliver “austerity and investment.”
Anthony Quinn, the president of the Canadian Association of Retired Persons, said that Kershaw was trying to spark “intergenerational warfare,” rather than put forward constructive ideas for bringing down the deficit.
“I think Mr. Kershaw is short-sighted, not understanding that we all become seniors if we’re lucky. And these programs are entitled to make sure Canadians are aging with dignity,” said Quinn.
Quinn said that Generation Squeeze’s OAS math didn’t account for various “costs of aging” such as at-home care and pricey medical devices and mobility aids.
According to a recent report from RBC Wealth Management, a healthy couple between 65 and 74 spends roughly $13,000 a year on health care. This jumps to $23,000 between 75 and 84, and $40,000 over the age of 85.
“There’s no guarantee that everyone is a rich, fat-cat senior, and that’s how Kershaw is framing all his arguments,” said Quinn.

Research group urges $13.9 billion cut to seniors' benefits!
Generation Squeeze said pension programs should be scaled back to reflect “today’s needs.”
“Old Age Security delivers $18,000 a year in taxpayer-funded cash benefits to retired couples with $180,000 in income,” the group wrote in its brief Recommendations For The Carney Government’s First Budget. “It’s appropriate to ask retirees with six-figure incomes to accept fewer taxpayer dollars.”
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https://www.westernstandard.news/news/research-group-urges-139-billion-cut-to-seniors-benefits/66993

JONES: Canadian tax policy is failing single seniors
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https://www.westernstandard.news/opinion/jones-canadian-tax-policy-is-failing-single-seniors/66882

Carney government to prioritize seniors for immigration
https://truenorthwire.com/2025/07/canada-to-issue-invitations-to-bring-older-migrants-to-burden-healthcare-system/

May 13, 2025
Ottawa, Ontario

Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, announced the members of Canada’s new Ministry.

Canadians elected this new government with a strong mandate to define a new economic and security relationship with the United States, to build a stronger economy, to reduce the cost of living, and to keep our communities safe. This focused team will act on this mandate for change with urgency and determination.

The new government will act to catalyze investment and build a new Canadian economy – one that creates higher-paying careers, raises incomes, and can withstand future shocks. They will work in collaboration with provinces, territories, and Indigenous Peoples to advance the nation-building investments that will support the government’s core mission of building one strong, united economy – the strongest economy in the G7.

The new Cabinet is appointed as follows:

Shafqat Ali, President of the Treasury Board
Rebecca Alty, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations
Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Gary Anandasangaree, Minister of Public Safety
François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Finance and National Revenue
Rebecca Chartrand, Minister of Northern and Arctic Affairs and Minister responsible for the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency
Julie Dabrusin, Minister of Environment and Climate Change
Sean Fraser, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Transport and Internal Trade
Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages
Mandy Gull-Masty, Minister of Indigenous Services
Patty Hajdu, Minister of Jobs and Families and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario
Tim Hodgson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources
Mélanie Joly, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
Dominic LeBlanc, President of the King’s Privy Council for Canada and Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, Intergovernmental Affairs and One Canadian Economy
Joël Lightbound, Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement
Heath MacDonald, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food
Steven MacKinnon, Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
David J. McGuinty, Minister of National Defence
Jill McKnight, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence
Lena Metlege Diab, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
Marjorie Michel, Minister of Health
Eleanor Olszewski, Minister of Emergency Management and Community Resilience and Minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development Canada
Gregor Robertson, Minister of Housing and Infrastructure and Minister responsible for Pacific Economic Development Canada
Maninder Sidhu, Minister of International Trade
Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
Joanne Thompson, Minister of Fisheries
Rechie Valdez, Minister of Women and Gender Equality and Secretary of State (Small Business and Tourism)

The Cabinet will be supported by 10 secretaries of State who will provide dedicated leadership on key issues and priorities within their minister’s portfolio.

The new secretaries of State are appointed as follows:

Buckley Belanger, Secretary of State (Rural Development)
Stephen Fuhr, Secretary of State (Defence Procurement)
Anna Gainey, Secretary of State (Children and Youth)
Wayne Long, Secretary of State (Canada Revenue Agency and Financial Institutions)
Stephanie McLean, Secretary of State (Seniors)
Nathalie Provost, Secretary of State (Nature)
Ruby Sahota, Secretary of State (Combatting Crime)
Randeep Sarai, Secretary of State (International Development)
Adam van Koeverden, Secretary of State (Sport)
John Zerucelli, Secretary of State (Labour)

OP-ED: Manipulating vulnerable seniors is the Liberals’ last-ditch re-election ploy
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You still trust Pharma and Vaccines? This might blow your mind:

Nearly 20 years ago, CBS aired a segment on the flu shot, revealing a shocking truth: despite flu shot uptake among seniors rising from 15% to 65%, flu deaths kept going up.

NIH scientists were devastated. This was not the result they were hoping to find. They assumed other factors must be “masking the true benefits of the shots.”

“But no matter how they crunched the numbers, they got the same disappointing result. Flu shots have not reduced deaths among the elderly,” Sharyl Attkisson reported.

And when they looked at other countries? They found “the same poor results in Australia, France, Canada, and the UK.”

So what did the CDC do? They doubled down. Instead of admitting failure, they kept pushing flu shots. Even worse, they turned to a “roundabout way” of protecting seniors—injecting kids to “protect grandma.”

Sound familiar? They pulled the same stunt during COVID. When the pharmaceutical product didn’t work as promised, they injected kids to “protect grandma” all over again.

“If they were doing this 20 years ago, they managed to make the same mistake again. That’s a little bit hard to believe it’s a mistake.”

Crypto wallet development empowers seniors with secure ways to manage digital assets, avoid inflation, earn DeFi opportunities, & enjoy a stable retirement.

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