Trudeau Reverses Harper Policy on Pension-Eligibility Age
- March 22 budget will roll back plan to raise age to 67
- Prime minsiter calls revious government's policy a mistake
Canada's Trudeau on Economy, Climate and United States
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals will keep 65 as the age when Canadians can begin to collect state-pension benefits, reversing the previous government’s decision to raise it by two years.
“Next week’s budget will confirm that we are keeping the old retirement age at 65,” Trudeau said in an exclusive interview Thursday with Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait in New York. “How we care for the most vulnerable in our society is very important.”