Carney’s $10 OAS Raise. Canada’s Seniors Kneel in Gratitude. I have paid government taxes and into so-called ‘pensions’ for 56 years. Still paying. In 1970 at 16 years old when governments first started taking a portion of my earnings, I had no idea the money would be wasted, stolen, sent abroad to support unjust but profitable wars, sent to people who hate us – or used to destroy the Western-Christian foundations of Canada. Had I known, I would have left for the United States or elsewhere while I was still young. Many friends did exactly that in their early 20s. I stayed. Now I’m told I am a White oppressor and a boomer responsible for the country’s decline. Two or more generations - recent arrivals and younger Canadians raised in the public schools - have been taught to see me that way. To ridicule, despise and even to hate me. It does not matter that I worked at Stelco and then as a Toronto police officer, that I carried the bodies of friends killed in service of Canada - or that my own multiple injuries on duty and months in hospital mean I have not been able to walk normally and without pain since 1982. It does not matter that my family has been in Canada since at least 1703, were pioneers on the prairies, or that by Royal declaration of the King - I, my children, grandchildren and all succeeding generations are forever are honoured with the post-nominal ‘U.E.’ It does not matter that I raised three children, the last ten years entirely on my own until they were adults, and that all three turned out well. My four grandchildren are joys. I am so proud of each and all of them. None of that counts. I am White, male, 72 and a legacy Canadian. That is what matters. So I am expected to get down on my knees and thank @MarkJCarney for an extra ten dollars a month, while begging forgiveness for my sin of being here since 1703.