Conservative pension advice duplicitous

Re Conservatives vow to repeal Ontario’s pen

sion plan, March 10 Here we have a man who made well over $150,000 a year (plus allowances) for nine years as a backbencher and earned a taxpayer-funded pension that will be available to him from age 55. He also probably received a severance payment of several thousands of dollars after leaving his House of Commons seat.

Now, he sits at the Legislature again making a huge salary, plus allowances, and probably gets most of his partisan expenses paid by his party, when they are not covered by his Legislature budget. And he has the gall to call the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan contributions a tax, and says that he will repeal the ORPP if elected.

Then, to put the cherry on top, the man who sat silently and banged his desk on cue in Ottawa, says “any public pension plan improvements should be made nation-wide through the CPP.” How quickly he forgets where he was a year ago when Joe Oliver, his fellow Conservative in Ottawa, blatantly stated the Harper government would not raise a finger to help Ontario improve the condition of its “working families” they are so fond of wooing for votes.

Don’t be fooled by this two-faced professional politician who has never done a day’s hard work in his adult life, and sits in a position of privilege paid for by us working stiffs who can’t even dream of a retirement like Patrick Brown’s. Mark Jessop, Barrie