Bob Delaney's web page for western Mississauga seniors
Seniors information and issues

New Ontario energy and property tax credit in 2011

To assist Ontario seniors, those on fixed incomes, and low- to moderate-income Ontario families with rising energy costs, Ontario will rebate you ten percent of your electricity bill for the next five years, and also introduce a new Ontario Senior Homeowners’ Property Tax Grant with up to $500 starting in 2010, doubling the amount available in 2009.

Have you received the "Chicken Little" e-mail about the HST

It's the one that seems to blame the Premier of Ontario for just about everything. It's time for a reality check. Here is the answer to it.

Definitive word on the HST. Take that, talk radio!

Should a noisy group of angry people take away the substantial benefits of more jobs, lower taxes and greater investment from 13 million of us in Ontario? They are trying, but failing. Here is what to copy and paste into your messages to those chain e-mails some people have been sent.

Mississauga Seniors Group on Yahoo! Join it today!

To augment this web site, we have opened up a Mississauga Seniors Group using Yahoo! Groups. Join it for latest updates, links and most importantly, info on budget, taxation and HST-related issues as they affect seniors.

Let's get Ontario prescription drug prices lower!

Ontario patients, seniors and consumers pay far too much money for drugs. In many cases, we pay several times what U.S. consumers pay. How would you like the price of many of the drugs people need to drop by half? We can do it. Print and sign this petition. More info available on this web site.

How Ontario's tax reforms will benefit our seniors

Don't buy a line from someone who's only telling you half the story! Read the real deal and calculate the impact to you. Seniors are better off with Ontario's tax reform.

Issues that seniors raise frequently in our office

• Bob's announcement of the Phase II Expansion at Credit Valley Hospital;
• Explaining the Trillium Drug Program which helps to individuals, couples or families
   who spend a large part of their income on prescription medicines.

Travelling outside Canada or expecting visitors from outside Ontario this year?

OHIP doesn't cover your guests from outside Ontario while they are here, and likely won't all cover your costs if you get sick while abroad, even in the USA. You need third-party health insurance for your guests and for yourself if you travel outside Ontario.

Protecting seniors in our community

• A seniors' primer on how to be careful and avoid financial fraud;
• Revenue Canada has an alert about an e-mail fraud promising tax refunds;
• Hammering mortgage fraudsters. How you can protect yourself;
• Information about title fraud and consumer protection;
• Good reasons to kick the smoking habit;
• Beware of the fixed-rate electricity retailers who knock at your door.

See Bob working for western Mississauga

Slide shows of your Mississauga Streetsville MPP at work in 2004, 2005 and 2006.

Click to join The Mississauga Seniors Yahoo! Group to get more seniors info.