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February 11, 2012

The World Is Running Out of Workers

Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail

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Now Canada, too, has had its senior moment. When Prime Minister Stephen Harper suggested that Canada would soon join most other Western countries in raising its pension age to 67, he triggered an angry round of debate. We were late entering this argument: Europeans have been having it for a decade.

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