The Zoomers advocacy group CARP is calling on the federal parties to support unpaid, informal caregivers with a refundable tax credit.

”Family caregivers save our health care system over $25-billion annually,” according to Marissa Lennox, CARP’s Chief Policy Officer.

”That’s unpaid labour that’s being shouldered by millions of Canadians — over 1-million of whom are over age 65.”

In a heart-wrenching video featuring caregivers, CARP’s launched a campaign in an effort ot make it an election issue.

CARP asks Canadians to watch the video and share it on social media using #credit4caregivers, #elxn43 and #cdnpoli.