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Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · 5d

Possibly. I grew up in HRM and the problems associated with sprawl are greatly amplified by the transportation bottlenecks involved with commuting into a peninsula. Maybe they’re trying to encourage more urbanization around Bedford and Dartmouth.

Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · 5d

They absolutely have the legal authority to do it. Like I said, municipalities only exist by way of statute.

Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · 5d

I’m all for more housing, but denser housing, not more suburbs.

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Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · 5d

Housing is an area of provincial jurisdiction (whereas municipalities have only statutory powers). How is this an abuse of power?

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Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · 6d

If 3/4 of Canadians agreed that all immigrants should be deported to make way for Millennials would you agree with that too?

Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · 6d

I live in a high density neighbourhood with a significant population of seniors who rent. They are experiencing the same hardships with respect to housing costs as all other renters including eviction and homelessness. Why are you focused on marginalizing seniors?

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Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · 6d

You also say you will increase threshold for an individual to $100,000 but clawback more from couples who have an income of $180,000. How does that work? Shouldn’t the threshold for a couple be $200,000?

Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · 6d

The way you present the issue doesn’t acknowledge that OAS benefits are clawed back from seniors over a certain threshold and imply that all seniors receive OAS. That is deceptive.

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Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · 6d

If the individual threshold is $100,000 what will the household threshold become?

Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · 6d

The notion of addressing seniors poverty by redistributing money from other seniors within the OAS program instead of taxing the wealthy is wrongheaded and consistent with the far right agenda.

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Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · 7d

Your analysis seems to assume that your generation has it a lot harder than your parents did by comparing what you have at age 30 with what they have at age 65. You should at least be comparing apples with apples: www.pewresearch.org/social-trend...

Millennial life: How young adulthood today compares with prior generations

Now that the youngest Millennials are adults, how do they compare with those who were their age in the generations that came before them?

www.pewresearch.org

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Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · 7d

The OAS program is designed to claw back benefits when income reaches an established cap that has taken cost of living into consideration. Your analysis sounds like your just spitballed this based on what you think sounds like a lot of money.

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Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · 7d

If you’re going to talk about intergenerational equity, you should at least try to compare apples with oranges. It makes no sense to compare how much wealth has been accumulated by someone who’s 30 with someone who’s 65 and has spent an additional 35 years saving for their retirement.

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Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · 7d

In fact, all you’re really doing there is increasing financial precarity for a larger group of people living on fixed incomes. And your analysis is also gender blind.

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Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · 7d

The reality is the neo-conservative movement that started with the elections of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan have been working on dismantling the social welfare net in tandem successive income and wealth tax cuts. You’re not going to fix that by taking money away from the almost poor.

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Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · 7d

But you’ve allowed yourself to get sucked into the far right culture war narrative of turning young against old relying on a specious inter-generational analysis that will only serve to starve Peter to pay Paul.

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Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · 7d

I agree that a reconsideration of how we fund our social safety net is necessary. Some of this has started with the reforms made to increase CPP benefits for younger people, ie boomers are not receiving this increase.

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Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · 7d

Is it a problem that so many Republicans in senior leadership positions are awaiting the rapture?

Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · 7d

The Pentagon issued a report recently about the difficulties the army is having finding recruits. My understanding is that the army has fitness standards but only about 20% of eligible applicants meet the test.

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Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · 7d

There is already a lot of right wing momentum to roll back women’s previously earned rights to access jobs (at less pay for equal work) and you’re going after us when we’re old as well?

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Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · 7d

It’s also deceptive to combine two maximum qualifying incomes for analysis when many women outlive their husbands and lose a significant amount of their husbands benefits.

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Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · 7d

Rather than redistribute wealth from middle class seniors to lower class seniors, wouldn’t it make more sense to redistribute more wealth from the very wealthy to the less wealthy? How will you guarantee that a cut to OAS will not just result in a corporate tax cut?

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Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · 7d

The UCP approach is to accelerate the downward spiral by practically give away ABs natural resources. No vision for the future.

Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · 7d

All the low hanging fruit has been picked. And of course, AB tar sands are even more difficult to market because it requires special refineries to convert it to gasoline.

Carol Reardon @caroltreardon.bsky.social · 8d

Automation means a lot fewer jobs regardless of lower prices.

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