A month has passed since Harper announced his intention to gut Old Age Security to an audience of banking elites in Davos, Switzerland. The issue has received a great deal of discussion in the media since then, some informative and some inane, so maybe it is time to take stock of what we've learned.
Among the more thoughtful and informed pieces is this one by Robert Brown, a retired professor of actuarial science from the University of Waterloo and a former president of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries. Here he addresses claims that OAS is unsustainable:
