Why do we enforce the most stringent ‘adult entry’ rules on the most vulnerable?
We all know that Canada is an aging society. But how many of us know that the median age in Canada was 26 in 1967 and is now age 42[1]? Most of us are living longer and having smaller families. Yet we don’t seem to stop to think too much about what an older Canada means for the extensions in the stages of our lives. Much has been written about the incredible lengthening of old age in our society. People who retired at 65 in 1967 typically lived into their mid-seventies. Now they live a decade or more longer. Our working lives used to end at age 65 but mandatory retirement laws have been scrapped and our federal government is postponing the receipt of Old Age Security to age 67.…