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applegrove

(123,188 posts)
Thu Oct 19, 2023, 09:07 PM Oct 2023

What I don't see in the Danielle Smith tearing Alberta pension plan

out of the Canada Pension Plan is they have more transient workers than any other province. People go to Alberta to work from Nova Scotia and Ontario and elsewhere in boom times they return home when oil prices fall. How would that work for pensions? Would people in Nova Scotia get two pension cheques?

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What I don't see in the Danielle Smith tearing Alberta pension plan (Original Post) applegrove Oct 2023 OP
I assume they would have to make it portable... Spazito Oct 2023 #1
Yes. I'm a big no too. The At Issue Panel on CBC The National applegrove Oct 2023 #2
Selfish idiots AloeVera Oct 2023 #3
It is disgusting but not surprising, sadly... Spazito Oct 2023 #5
Hope you are right. AloeVera Oct 2023 #6
Hope you are right. AloeVera Oct 2023 #7
I don't think Smith will be able to pull it off Fiendish Thingy Oct 2023 #4

Spazito

(54,405 posts)
1. I assume they would have to make it portable...
Thu Oct 19, 2023, 09:14 PM
Oct 2023

and the contributor wouldn't be able to receive CPP if they paid into whatever the Alberta plan would be.

Putting the Alberta government in charge of an Alberta version of CPP is nuts, imo. There is no doubt the Cons would use it as a slush fund to fund their pet projects like oil and gas projects.

I am a loud NO on this and, from what I have read, so are the majority of Albertans.

AloeVera

(1,958 posts)
3. Selfish idiots
Thu Oct 19, 2023, 10:17 PM
Oct 2023

They want half of the CPP based on some bad-math devious formula they came up with. Screw over the rest of Canada and then probably wreck the new fund too. They hate the CPP and any form of the social safety net. Like their maga cousins.

Disgusting.

Spazito

(54,405 posts)
5. It is disgusting but not surprising, sadly...
Fri Oct 20, 2023, 04:35 AM
Oct 2023

Their claim to half of what is in the CPP 'kitty' is beyond ludicrous, the reality is closer to 17% at most and even that is high, imo.

They are already flip flopping on some key elements, I don't think this will fly.

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