Alberta’s road to quitting the Canada Pension Plan would run smack into a scheduled 2027 provincial election, with Opposition New Democrats promising to kill the idea if they win.

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    1 year ago

    What an insanely asinine idea to cut and run from the federal CPP program.

    Surely, the oil wealth will last forever and ever, right?

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      And they managed that oil wealth so well that it inspires lots of confidence in how they would manage an Alberta pension plan…

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        1 year ago

        Please God, one more oil boom, we promise not to piss this one away (Albertans in 2014)

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        It’s aged now. The boomers are in their 70s. The wave will be ending in a decade and our population will get younger.

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    Lol they also promised to do this if they won the 2023 election. Which of course they didn’t, because they are impotent.