There is plenty of room to debate whether this type of labor amounts to exploitation of, excuse the pun, a captive audience or does it take away jobs from those who are in thegeneralworkforce.
According to the auditor general, as the public sector represents around 30% of the total labour workforce, its health and well being is crucial to the effective delivery of public services.
Such a move would also have a positive impact on general tax revenues as more 65 and 66 year olds would remain in theworkforce in the effort to protect their company-provided healthcare benefits or, if they are self-employed, continue earning enough money to pay for their private health insurance premiums for an additional two years.