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This is what Canada will look like in 20 years – are we ready for an aging population? (www.ctvnews.ca)
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New data reveals Canada's senior population is expected to exceed 11 million people by 2043. This rapid rise in the number of older Canadians will have wide-reaching implications on sectors such as health care and employment, with experts sounding the alarm that Canada is not prepared to handle an aging population.

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[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 18 points 11 months ago

No, because we're still refusing to tax at the level needed to maintain services. We'll try anything--anything--except returning marginal tax rates to 1960-something levels and building things directly.

Because doing the right thing would mean the 30-year-plus neoliberal experiment was a failure, and all we did was make rich people richer.