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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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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] ruinsalljokes 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Surely our population will also never age

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

If you kill the health care system, maybe they won’t.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] ruinsalljokes 1 points 1 year ago

Our population is on average younger than the rest of Canada... hence why they feel entitled to 52% of the cpp

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

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