1y ago

Most Albertans don't want the province to pull out of CPP, survey finds

www.ctvnews.ca

One month after finance ministers met to discuss the Alberta government's intent to pull out of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) public opinion polling by the Angus Reid Institute suggests there's little desire among Albertans or the rest of Canada to see Alberta leave the plan.

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Stop electing morons and this would be less of an issue
- Us city folk tried. 😑
  
  Dat rural voting block fml
- Can't stop won't stop.

As if Smith gives a single shit what Albertans or anyone except her O&G backers want.
- see also: insurance caps, mining, abandoned wells, etc etc. Some company (via a rich guy) says we need to do (or not do) this? On it! Actual human people say we need to do something? WOKE LEFTY LIBERAL TEARS!

This is going to be the model for elections from now on.
Anger the population into electing an extremist party ... convince the people to elect the extremist party ... then after the election everyone wonders why the extremist party is doing extreme things ... spend the next few years complaining about the extremist party ... do it again at the next election cycle.
- Thanks for exporting that south of the border. Or wait, is it thanks for importing that from south of the border? Either way, we all pay.
  
  With the advent of the internet, fascism has no more borders....

"Alberta's young working population and more jobs with higher wages has resulted in Albertans over-contributing tens of billions into the CPP compared to the benefits we've received," states a Government of Alberta video promoting the creation of an Alberta pension plan.
Aren't the high wages (and young people) predominately because oil/gas? Are those not national natural resources?
- Are those not national natural resources?
  They are not. The government of Canada owns 0.56% of fossil fuels in Canada. The majority of ownership is by private corporations. Canada's natural resources have been sold to private companies. It's their natural resources now.
  
  If you ever needed an example of rotten-to-the-core corruption, this is it, kids! :D
  
  Thanks, Stephen!
- The young people aren't because of oil/gas - they're mostly because Calgary and Edmonton are pretty decent in terms of services and actually affordable.
  
  You missed the recent news that Calgary is now more expensive than Vancouver and Toronto?

Better keep voting against your interests, Alberta!
- Yup, they're going to do for pensions what they've done for healthcare!
  
  And what they're doing for public education.
- Checked out a town hall meeting about it. Pretty much the vibe I got was "I'll cut off my foot and yours as long as it makes Trudeau look bad"

I fucking dare her
to try
And I fucking dare Albertans
to burn the damn -- passport -- drivers license -- house deed -- high school diploma
lol ;)
Edit: as a show of confidence, Smith voters should trade in their CPP stats over to her pension plan, indemnify her for blowing it on stupid shit like saving Christmas and fighting carbon taxes and deincorporating towns so they can form freedom villages and offering private schools charters that are actually diploma mills for the ignorant parents to charge the state to deprive their children of an education, etc. Lots of "work" to be "done" hehe

why does the photo look like instant meme?

This sounds a lot like the Brexit commentary when it was being started.
grandiose announcements of how much better it would be
how the 'rest of EU' was milking them dry
outright lies of what Britain was sending to the EU
false promises of what they would get when they left
and at the end muddle the conversations with tangential issues but make them sound like it is really really germane to the overall discussion

I wonder how accurate this is when over half of our province voted for someone pushing this exact policy. As an Albertan, I've never understood the independent pension plan. You now have less people paying into it meaning that is less expansive and beneficial to those who need it for zero reason. We also now have to take the burden of managing an entirely separate pension plan too
- I’ve never understood the independent pension plan
  If you migrate to or from Alberta, you get nothing. The 'others' can suck it
  And if you move to BC at 60 years of age, you still get nothing, you rest-of-Canada-lover you.

Albertan voters decided to "fuck around" and now they are in the "find out" stage.

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