ACER-CART BRIEF: To Minister of Finance
November 4, 2008
Through fourteen (14) provincial and territorial associations of retired teachers, the Canadian Association of Retired Teachers (ACER‐CART) represents well over 150 000 members across Canada. Every year, Directors representing these fourteen associations meet in Ottawa to discuss issues relating to aging and seniors: government policies and programs, health care, elder abuse, retirement income, downloading of responsibilities between the different levels of government, affordable housing, long term care, property taxes, pharmacare,
