Pension suspension
The wife had better keep an eye on our current prime minister’s diet; he seems to be facing some sort of chemical imbalance that is transforming him into the Canadian version of Ming the Merciless.
The latest derailing of public policy involves pensions. “No more money to old criminals” is the battle cry. Someone took offense when it was made public that certain of our notorious jailbirds were collecting their Old Age Pensions. In jail. The place where your money can only buy chocolate bars and other tuck shop fare. The idea of universality in the final “get rich slowly” scheme with soon disappear. If you have a sentence of more than 90 days, the public money faucet will be closed. Seems fair, on the surface; crooks getting rich while the rest of us get poorer.
Unfortunately, the real criminals rarely go to jail (cf. one former prime minister with a high self opinion). Instead, we supplement his pensions (plural) with multi-million dollars appeasement payments. But, back to the 90 days and suffer plan. I don’t speak from personal experience, but it doesn’t take very much of a crime to get three month in the slammer; an open beer in a parking lot, with the wrong arresting officer who has a cheat list of charge codes and you will be placed in the house of high surveillance.
Getting your pension restarted after your moment of madness can take up to a year; a long time to wait, if your local soup kitchen is out of soup. No, this is all part of the con game… and I’m not referring to convict.
