Western Standard - Nenshi： 'Albertans do not want Alberta Pension Plan'

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The premier wants to take the Canadian Pension Plan (CPP) away from Albertans who have worked hard to get to where they are now. What does that mean to all the Albertans out there who have come here from other parts of Canada?

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00:00:00.080 again the thing about this government is that they take us for fools they think they can say

00:00:05.680 whatever and we will just all go oh yeah sure so they put out this crazy study that somehow alberta

00:00:11.760 is with 10 of the population of canada is entitled to 55 of the cpp what does that really mean it

00:00:18.720 means to all the albertans out there who have come here from other parts of canada from saskatchewan

00:00:23.840 from the atlantic provinces it means that danielle smith wants to take the pension away from your 0.92

00:00:28.560 grandma or the universities that you went to or the investments that were made in you before you

00:00:34.800 came to alberta and say guys you're on your own so that's morally wrong it's ethically wrong but

00:00:40.400 the other thing is nobody wants this and so study after study survey after survey poll after poll

00:00:47.840 shows that 70 80 percent of albertans are saying please don't touch that pension the cpp works

00:00:54.240 the returns are high and it's going to look after us in our retirement so ultimately hopefully

00:01:02.240 the premier will just give up on this but we know she doesn't give up on things 0.97

00:01:05.920 so if we do have a referendum if we do have a referendum in the municipal elections in 2025

00:01:12.480 it means that we have to work hard as albertans to make sure all of our friends and neighbors know

00:01:18.160 to vote no in that referendum to ensure that that does not happen

Western Standard - May 27, 2024

Nenshi： 'Albertans do not want Alberta Pension Plan'

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