PM pushes back on Danielle Smith’s bid to remove Alberta from the Canada Pension Plan. But his team isn’t yet offering its own numbers behind claim it would harm Albertan or Canadian retirees.
This is an easy slam dunk for Trudeau, honestly.
A) Every province that is not Alberta is obviously not going to look kindly on Alberta attempting to steal 53% of the CPP fund. Trudeau is running federally and isn’t popular in Alberta anyways so, you know, duh. Easy fight to take on.
B) Any rational person in Alberta who sees that number is going to have their scam alarm going off. Too good to be true isn’t the half of it. Many will still go for it because their team is proposing it, but I think even in Alberta this won’t be popular.
It’s not. Polling shows 60% - 70% of Albertans are opposed.
Right, that makes sense. Smith really shot herself in the foot with this report, at least make it believable.
Any rational person in Alberta who sees that number is going to have their scam alarm going off.
I admire your optimism. I think the plan is to convince enough easily-convinceable people that this is a good idea. It won’t matter what the percentage is in the end if they pull it off. If it’s too much, then it’s a huge success, if it’s too little (or a fair amount), then they were robbed by Trudeau and will use that as political ammo for a long time. Would like to see them try this with a conservative federal gov’t in power.
I cannot wait til this absolute twat is gone from this province.
