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Harper pledges tax credit for seniors VOTE 2015
Conservatives promise relief to ‘seniors who need it most’ BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
Conservative leader Stephen Harper made his second campaign stop on the North Vancouver side of the new Burnaby North – Seymour riding Tuesday, this time targeting seniors’ votes. Harper promised, if re-elected, his government would create a tax credit shielding the first $2,000 of private pensions from income tax for seniors getting by on a single income. Harper made the announcement to a crowd made up mostly of seniors gathered at the Canlan Ice Sports arena. “The tax credit will extend additional tax relief to nearly 1.6 million single and widowed seniors in Canada and, in combination with the existing pension income credits, it means a single senior will receive additional tax relief of up to $600 annually. This is important, friends, and it is an affordable commitment. It helps the seniors who need it most,” Harper said. The Conservatives say the plan will take four
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years to set up and cost $395 million per year when fully implemented. “The Liberals and the NDP want tax hikes to fund your retirement. We want tax breaks to fund your retirement,” Harper said. Liberal candidate in the riding Terry Beech characterized the tax credit plan as a “drop in the bucket,” compared to what See Liberals page 3
Coroner IDs Lynn Canyon drowning victim BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
The BC Coroners Service has identified the man who drowned in Lynn Canyon on Friday evening as Syed Wajahat Ali, 25, an international student from Pakistan who was living in Coquitlam. Police received a report
of a possible drowning just after 5 p.m. when Ali, who was with a group of other young men, jumped from the lower cliff into 90Foot Pool that can be seen from the Lynn Canyon suspension bridge and got caught in an underwater eddy. “His three other buddies, (and) a park ranger observed this. He
went under the water and never resurfaced,” said Cpl. Richard De Jong, North Vancouver RCMP spokesman. “Our dive team attended and confirmed (Ali) was literally trapped under a rock in the water.” District of North Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services raced to the scene with their swift water
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rescue team but there was little they could do, even for a recovery. “Time was against us in a sense,” said deputy fire chief Wayne Kennedy. “When they located him, they found that he was too far submerged and with the current and conditions, it wouldn’t have been a See Social page 5
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