Blue rinse: Harper's treatment of old age security and other elderly benefits

How Ottawa Spends, 2013-2014: The Harper Government: Mid-Term Blues and Long-Term Plans

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 64-75

  Prince, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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2. Dalton Camp, Points of Departure (Deneau and Greenberg Publishers, 1979).
3. G. Bruce Doern, Allan M. Maslove, and Michael J. Prince, Canadian Public Budgeting in the Age of Crises: Shifting Fiscal Domains and Temporal Budgeting (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013).
4. Susan A. McDaniel, "Demographic Aging as a Guiding Paradigm in Canada's Welfare State," Canadian Public Policy, 1987, 13(3): 330-6.;
5. Ted C. Fishman, Shock of Gray: The aging of theworld's population and how it pits young against old, child against parent, worker against boss, company against rival, and nation against nation (Scribner, 2010).;
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7. Ken Battle, "A New Old Age Pension," in Keith G. Banting and Robin Boadway, eds, Reform of Retirement Income Policy: International and Canadian Perspectives (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997), 140.
8. See: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/ragigran/.
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11. for example, Speaking Points for the Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, to the Canadian Club of Toronto, Royal York Hotel, February 23, 2012, available at: http://news.gc.ca/web/article-eng.do;jsessionid=ac1b105430d8362c7746c294be1bd51a6
12. Finance Canada, Economic and Fiscal Implications of Canada's Aging Population (Public Works and Government Services, 2012), 55
13. Raghubar D. Sharma comments in Poverty in Canada (Oxford University Press, 2012)
14. John Stapleton, "PM's new policy would force up to 50,000 to live in poverty for two more years," CARP in the News, February 12, 2012, 1, available at: http://www.carp.ca/2012/02/10/pm%e2%80%99s-new-policy-would-force-up-to-50000-t.
15. Rebecca Lindell, "Delaying OAS could cost seniors, provinces thousands in spinoffs," Global News, February 1, 2012, available at: http://www.globalnews.ca/retirement/6442571861/stroy.html
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17. Canadian Labour Congress, Implications of Raising the Age of Eligibility for Old Age Security, 2012, available at: http://www.canadianlabour.ca;
18. Michael J. Prince, "Retirement (in) Security for Canadians," Transition, Ottawa: The Vanier Institute of the Family, 2009, 39 (2): 6-9;
19. Ken Battle, Sherri Torjman and Michael Mendelson, Old Age Insecurity? Ottawa: Caledon Institute of Social Policy, February 2012, available at: www.caledoninst.org.
20. Michael J. Prince, "Avoiding Blame, Doing Good, and Claiming Credit: Reforming Canadian Income Security," Canadian Public Administration, 2010, 53 (3): 1-30.