Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We appreciate the intent and concern voiced and articulated in the motion. However, we also want to be very clear to the people we represent, that there is nothing imminent here, that we know of, for Old Age Security. It is good to be proactive, but any changes contemplated could be as much as 20 or 25 years down the road. It behooves us all to look at how we are doing, managing for retirement, but we want to reassure the elders today that they can go to bed and wake up knowing that they are not under any imminent threat, that this will be some time coming. We want to be clear about how we manage ourselves. We want to protect the benefits to seniors, but we definitely want to be measured and careful not to cause concern to the people, the elders today that are here and that are going to be with us over the coming years. I thank the Member for the motion and deserves recommendation to government, and Cabinet will be abstaining.
Michael Miltenberger on Motion 2-17(2): Old Age Security, Carried
In the Legislative Assembly on February 17th, 2012. See this statement in context.
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