Canadian Taxpayers Federation presents petition to Parliament Monday, calling for an end to pensions for inmates

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OTTAWA (NEWS1130) – Kevin Gaudet with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation wants you to know that Clifford Olson is receiving benefits while incarcerated, and he’s not the only one. On Monday the Federation will call on the federal government to stop providing benefits to prisoners.

Gaudet wants Diane Finley to put an end something he claims is fundamentally unjust. “We’re meeting with the federal Minister for Human Resources Development to present to her our 46,000 plus named petition demanding the government ends Old Age Security and Guaranteed Income Supplement Benefits, senior’s entitlements, to prisoners the likes of Clifford Olson.”

The fact that this was even going on was brought to the Federation’s attention by an unlikely source, Clifford Olson. “He was bragging to a journalist, by providing the journalist with copies of his tax forms.”

So how much is being paid out to Canadian prisoners each year? “It’s roughly $1,400 a month for Old Age Security and Guaranteed Income Supplement combined, which is a little over $14,000 a year per prisoner. With a little over 500 prisoners it works out to about $7 million  a year in taxpayer money.”

Gaudet adds the petition won’t stop until the benefits are canceled; benefits he says are intended to help seniors who can’t make ends meet.

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