Editor:
I hope that the Burnaby NOW will be posing questions to the local candidates in the provincial election.
Here is one that impacts every individual with disabilities: Will the BC NDP government stop discriminating against the disabled?
Or, a little more gently: Will your BC NDP government match the federal government in exempting the tax-free savings account from unfavourably impacting provincial benefits for the disabled?
Everyone can benefit from the tax-free savings account - everyone except the disabled.
The federal government has exempted the TFSA from impacting any federal benefits, just as they have done for the Registered Disability Savings Plan.
The provincial government has similarly exempted the RDSP but not the TFSA.
The NDP government claws back any earnings within a TFSA.
It will cost them nothing because the disabled are not now using the TFSA.
It will be beneficial for them to do so and it will not make the province any worse off.
Daniel McDonald, Burnaby
