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Budget 2025 sidesteps a hard truth: neither the Prime Minister who tabled it, nor the Opposition Leader who critiques it, has found the courage to ask financially secure retirees to share equally in this national moment of sacrifice.

In an era of large deficits and rising interest costs, our politicians need clearer priorities for how they spend scarce public dollars. Canada’s most expensive program, Old Age Security, has drifted from shielding retirees from poverty to padding the comfort of affluence. It needs reform.

Addressing the concerns of teachers, parents, and students now on display in the strike is a critical first step toward dismantling the structural ageism that has become routine in Alberta’s fiscal policy.

The Canadian Association of Retired Persons (CARP) proposes an increase to Canada's Old Age Security but it won’t lift most poor seniors out of poverty. Yet, it would pad the finances of retirees with six-figure incomes and add more than $3-billion to the deficit.

BC allows anyone over age 55 to defer paying municipal property taxes on their principal residence. This program may have made sense when it was created in 1973, but today, most beneficiaries are multi-millionaires. With BC facing record deficits, it's well past time for Finance Minister Bailey to change this outdated and inefficient subsidy.

MP Braedon Clark introduced Private Member’s Bill C-227: An Act to Establish a National Strategy on Housing for Young Canadians. All MPs will have a chance to vote. Join us in urging them to support it!

While leaders spar over housing and immigration, few acknowledge how boomer aging has become the decisive force behind provincial and federal deficits. Unlike other drivers of deficits, such as poor policy decisions or trade wars, this one was both predictable and preventable.

Last year, Canada and other UN member states adopted a milestone in global governance: the Declaration on Future Generations. With a federal budget around the corner, the question is clear: Will Canada live up to the promise it made at the UN — or will short-term politics win out?

Build Canada Homes embraces many of the housing affordability solutions Generation Squeeze has been championing for years. Despite these strengths, the strategy sidesteps a critical piece: what is our goal for home values?