If you're 65 or over, payments out of either an RRSP or a RRIF are eligible for the pension credit. If you're under 65, payments out of either are ineligible.
The only way to get a pension credit before age 65 is if you're actually being paid a pension by a private pension plan.
You're not going to save 2k. The credit is federal only and is worth about $300. The amount eligible for the credit in many provinces was not increased from the old 1k when the feds bumped, so that's worth maybe $60.I'll be nice to save 2k a yr. especially from the tax man
[Added later: dakota is in Ontario, so the provincial credit is 6.05% of $1158, about $70.]