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Younger Canadians already perform a critical national service: They pay more out of pocket, and sacrifice their standard of living, to protect healthy retirements for our aging population.

Here are the top ways you can help nudge the system to change in the direction we want, to build a Canada in which present and future generations can thrive.

The Carney government's first budget is expected this Fall. Our 3 recommendations help Ottawa deliver cost savings while also meeting key policy objectives in generationally fair ways.

BC wants to make its electoral system better. Gen Squeeze is calling on the Special Committee on Democratic and Electoral Reform to make 3 changes: require parties to release detailed platforms, lower the voting age to 16, and shift the province towards a proportional representation voting system.

Medical care is the largest expense in every provincial budget across Canada. The demand for medical care will continue to surge as boomers age through the system. Canadians and governments alike need to confront the root cause that has long been ignored: provincial governments failed to plan for the predictable rise in boomers’ medical costs.

Ottawa recently released what it describes as the “most ambitious” housing plan in over 75 years. In many ways, it delivers. But for all its ambition on building homes, the plan is silent on deeper tensions that drive unaffordability – especially the generational dynamics at its core.

Home ownership among young Canadians (under age 35) has recently surged to 44%, the highest level in five decades! 18% of them are mortgage-free. This indicates Canada may be drifting from a meritocracy toward a landed aristocracy, where access to secure housing increasingly depends on being born into the right family.

Canadian politicians are sidestepping the most important – and politically dangerous – question in our housing debate: Should home prices rise, stall or fall? Until we answer it, we can’t fix what’s broken in Canada’s housing system.

With young people facing heavy rents and oversized mortgages for the foreseeable future, compensation is overdue. Millennials and Gen Z deserve a greater share of the $1.5-trillion windfall generated by rising home values since boomers were young adults.