Budgets are about choices.

And with seniors’ poverty doubling and countless workplace pension plans failing each month, Stephen Harper had an opportunity in the 2010 budget to protect our seniors and the retirement savings of hard-working Canadians.

But instead, he chose to allocate billions in new spending to lower the tax rate for Canada’s most profitable corporations, a third of which goes directly to the banks and oil companies.

Harper’s budget failed to raise the Guaranteed Income Supplement for Canada’s poorest seniors and failed to announce measures that would protect workers’ benefits and pensions in the event of bankruptcy.

Canadian Association of Retired Persons

“In the end all CARP members got from this budget are some nice words and the promise of more consultation.”