Among the allegedly transformational, nation-building initiatives stuffed into the 493 pages of Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s first budget, there was one substantial alteration that was notable by its absence.

Messing with Old Age Security was too much for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s eager-beaver reformers to contemplate. Perhaps they did contemplate it. But if so they backed off. Carney may be set on reshaping, reviving and reinvigorating Canada in a changing world, but some steps remain just too much to contemplate.

As a life-long boomer, no one has to convince me that ours is a generation that’s done more to feather its own nest than perhaps any other in history. The welfare state was built on an ever-expanding mountain of debt that is now choking the ability t

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