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submitted 1 year ago by sik0fewl@kbin.social to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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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[-] justhach@lemmy.world 30 points 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?

[-] altasshet@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ruinsalljokes@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

Surely our population will also never age

[-] 601error@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Blastasaurus@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

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@sh.itjust.works 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

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