Congratulations to all of you who took action and pressed your Members of Parliament to support the Motion to increase OAS, GIS, CPP as well as address the retirement security of Canadians. CARP issued the call out late Saturday night and in a matter of just 3 days MPs all across the country had their inboxes flooded with more than 6,000 emails sent to them from CARP members via our E-VOICE function. The leaders of all four parties, Stephen Harper, Michael Ignatieff, Jack Layton and Gilles Duceppe, each received over 200 e-mails while Finance Minister Jim Flaherty received over 500. Each e-mail would have arrived with the CARP E-VOICE banner to show that we were acting together. Such a show of concerted support for the motion no doubt contributed to the 294-0 vote yesterday, a historic show of parliamentary support for retirees and older Canadians. Thanks again for reacting so quickly in force to this campaign. As you can see when we act together and are mobilized, we can achieve remarkable things.
This tremendous and immediate response from CARP members shows how important this issue is for them. Government needs to act immediately to give them help now by increasing OAS, GIS and CPP and better protecting the interests of those with pension plans. It is also time to take action for those without workplace pensions.
Sincerely,
Susan Eng Vice President, Advocacy of CARP.
Below is a copy of the news release we issued to the media yesterday.
