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Chew on these issues
with dentures
As Thanksgiving weekend
arrives, Canadians have
much on their plates to
digest: One of the closest
federal election races in their
history will be decided little
more than a week from now.
Prime Minister Stephen
Harper may well have
intended just such an intimate
end when he plunged Canada
into its longest modern elec-
tion campaign nearly 10
weeks ago. There's nothing
like getting together with fam-
ily and friends, after all, to
chew over mutual concerns
and crystallize our thinking.
The problem is, politics is
about the near-term, not the
long haul. With their survival
at stake every four years, poli-
ticians naturally focus on the
here and now, not the future.
It was ever thus.
But today's slavish devotion
to retail politics -- political
parties carefully brand them-
selves and go after segments
of the voting market, with dif-
ferent options tailored to dif-
ferent tastes -- has turned
platforms into sales cata-
logues and citizens into shop-
pers picking out specials.
Too many voters think a la
carte, not the full meal.
Helpfully, Statistics Cana-
da's new report on Canada's
aging population provides a
timely digestif for the buffet of
options we're being served up
in the Oct. 19 election. Can-
ada, it turns out, has crossed
an important divide for a
western consumer society,
with its senior citizens now
outnumbering its children for
the first time. As the post-war
baby boom generation retires,
that reality will be with us for
years yet.
Among election issues now
upon us:
• Run up the federal red
ink for new social programs
or economic stimulus or
whip the books into shape?
• Pay child care benefits
for all or to just the neediest
families?
• Launch national day care
or pharmacare or both?
• Tax breaks or increases?
For whom?
Seen through the lens of a
country where seniors 65 and
above have now passed the
16 per cent of the population
made up of kids 14 and
under, those immediate
questions take on new future
meaning. By 2055, one in
four Canadians will be a
senior.
Growing older isn't the
end of the world: At 40,
Canada's median age is still
on the younger end of the
G7 group of industrial
nations. But there's no
denying aging also invites
uncomfortable questions
and, eventually, hard
choices about wants and
needs. For Canada, that will
inevitably involve soaring
health-care costs, entitle-
ments for the young and old
alike, and who pays what.
Those are questions voters
should begin considering
now. Bon appetite.
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