Liberal
- Increase the Old Age Security benefit by 10% for seniors when they turn 75.
- Create a national definition of elder abuse, invest in better data collection and law enforcement, and establish new penalties.
This is a page from the 2019 Canadian general election.
Seniors platforms
Here's what the 2019 Canadian election parties are promising.Conservative
- Increase the Age Credit by $1,000.
- Maintain the Old Age Security at age 65.
Since the Age Credit is income-tested, it will benefit low to middle income seniors. With this measure, an individual aged 65 could receive up to $150 more per year and a couple could receive up to $300 more per year.
From Andrew Scheer will give more support to seniors, retrieved 2019-10-08.
NDP
- Lead a National Seniors Strategy to make seniors health care a priority, reduce isolation, and tackle seniors' poverty, including a funded national dementia strategy and an elder abuse prevention plan.
- Make the Canada caregiver Tax Credit refundable.
We will lead a National Seniors Strategy that will work with the provinces, territories, and Indigenous governments to make seniors health care a priority, reduce isolation, and tackle seniors’ poverty. This will include a funded national dementia strategy and an elder abuse prevention plan developed with seniors to put an end to abuse and neglect in our communities.
Our national pharmacare for all plan will provide prescription medicine to all seniors, saving seniors hundreds of dollars every year and ensuring that no one needs to choose between medicine and other essentials.
Seniors deserve a retirement that’s financially secure and dignified. And no senior should miss out on benefits they qualify for because of a paperwork oversight – but that’s exactly what’s happening to tens of thousands of seniors today. We’ll put in place a one-year delay to help seniors at risk of having their GIS benefits suspended for being unable to make the required income statement.
Many seniors are themselves caregivers to a loved one, or rely on the caregiving of family members. In order to help make life a little more affordable for caregivers, who are overwhelmingly women, we’ll make the Canada Caregiver Tax Credit refundable. This will provide thousands of dollars to the most low-income caregivers, many of whom have given up work completely to care for a loved one.
Every senior should have a safe and affordable place to call home. Our commitment to create half a million affordable housing units in the next decade will include accessible housing that will increase choices for seniors. We’ll also support connection to community and tackle seniors’ isolation by working with cities to make transit more affordable and convenient, create more community recreation spaces, and support innovative housing solutions like intergenerational co-housing.
From A New Deal for People, retrieved 2019-09-22.
We don't have any Bloc policies on Seniors.
Green
- Support innovative home-sharing plans and other measures to allow people to stay in their homes as long as possible.
- Create more long-term care beds.
Support innovative home-sharing plans and other measures to allow people to stay in their own homes as long as possible. Create more long-term care beds in neighbourhood facilities.
From Election Platform 2019, retrieved 2019-09-22.
We don't have any PPC policies on Seniors.