Seniors Minister Seamus O’Regan said seniors made Canada into the country it is now. .“They deserve to age with dignity and choice,” tweeted O’Regan on Sunday. .“It’s #NationalSeniorsDay.”.Haultain Research Institute President Marco Navarro-Genie said maybe O’Regan “can learn some WW2 history from them.”.“Try it!!” said Navarro-Genie. .Canadian political commentator Hanya Toderoff said if seniors deserve to age with dignity, why has he deceived them for decades. .“You use a Senior Council as #OpticsPolitics to gain support for scamming seniors out of both OAS/CPP (Old Age Security/Canada Pension Plan) payments,” said Toderoff. .“You have done NOTHING except deceive them.”.Privy Council Office (PCO) research published in March found Canadians in their sixties stay in the workforce and do not retire because of inflation, telling focus groups they could not stop working over the rising cost of living. .READ MORE: Inflation causing Canadian seniors to postpone retirement .“Participants nearing retirement expressed concerns about a number of issues, including the cost of living,” said the PCO. .“Some described their long-term financial outlook as bleak, suggesting they were not overly optimistic it would improve by the time they expected to retire.”
