Where are seniors on the Trudeau agenda?

We need to develop a comprehensive dementia strategy. Within 25 years, the number of people living with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia could reach 1.3 million and will have the highest economic, social, and health costs of all diseases in Canada.

Minister of Families Children and Social Development Jean-Yves Duclos and Health Minister Jane Philpott share responsibilities for Canada's aging society.The Hill Times photographs by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY ELIZABETH MAY

June 6, 2016

It is not immediately obvious. We no longer have a minister for seniors, but we never had a department for seniors issues anyway. Crafting a smaller cabinet inevitably meant the loss of some titles. Former prime minister Stephen Harper tied historically with former prime minister Brian Mulroney for ...

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