Hidden Agenda

Obtuse Dept: While it remains as obtuse as ever about its intentions, the signs of an agenda are by now unmistakable. Where before it had attitudes, or at best stances, it is beginning to sprout what look remarkably like policies, according to Vancouver Sun. But put them together and they have all the markings of an agenda: . Reform of Old Age Security, not only raising the age of eligibility by two years starting in 2023, and phased in over six years but offering higher benefits to those willing to keep working past the standard retirement age and it is becoming more difficult to accuse the federal government of having a hidden agenda. To be sure, they are modest, even piecemeal. They are often poorly communicated, where the Conservatives deign to communicate them at all. More often they are simply dropped on the unsuspecting public without consultation, or jammed through Parliament with little debate or scrutiny, quite apart from monstrosities such as the omnibus budget bill. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.