• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    The fact that they’re even going down this path, vilifying people’s pensions is fucking disgusting. As if a pension should be some sort of a luxury. This should be used to clap straight back at PP in the form of standing up for more people to have pensions, not fewer.

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    So having a pension (that pays just a little bit more than the average annual Canadian salary) is woke now? Conservatives sure love being little snowflakes about everything these days.

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      It kinda is, most of the people where I work (manufacturing) make significantly less than that. However, it’s even more outrageous that a career leech can produce absolutely nothing for his entire life and get a $200K pension.

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    There’s a political concept south of the border called IOKIYAR (It’s okay if you are a Republican).

    The same is at play here: Corruption and nepotism? It’s okay if you’re a conservative. Wasting public funds? Okay if you’re a conservative? Drawing a pension? Being a shameless hypocrite? You get the idea.

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    A calculation of Poilievre’s House of Commons pension indicates that he could draw more than $230,000 annually once he turns 65. That figure could grow considerably if Poilievre becomes prime minister following the next federal election.

    If Singh qualifies for his pension, he could draw more than $66,000 annually starting at age 65, the same estimates suggest.

    He estimated the current lifetime value of Poilievre’s pension at $1.75 million, assuming he leaves politics after this year, starts collecting his pension at 65 and lives until 82 — the average life expectancy in Canada. According to Trivedi’s math, Singh’s lifetime pension is worth an estimated present-day value of $502,000.