Western Standard - October 20, 2023


Trudeau ‘deeply concerned’ over Alberta CPP withdrawal


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Justin Trudeau has an open letter to Alberta and says he will not stand by as they seek to weaken Alberta's pension plan. Alberta is considering pulling out of the Canada Pension Plan, but what will that mean for the rest of the country?

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00:00:00.000 Trudeau came out in it with a big open letter to Premier Daniel Smith and basically saying he's not
00:00:07.260 going to stand by as anyone seeks to weaken pensions. His attack was on the the considerations
00:00:13.600 going on of an Alberta pension plan right now. Now one of the things interesting is I guess
00:00:18.020 somebody with a little bit of economic knowledge did get Justin aside and pull him over and let
00:00:23.140 him know hey if Alberta pulls out of this plan you're screwed because Alberta puts in a heck 1.00
00:00:28.540 of a lot more than it takes out of it. You see if it was just a wash if it was just Alberta putting 1.00
00:00:34.220 in as much as it gets out then it wouldn't be a big deal right Alberta could step aside 0.98
00:00:38.280 and the plan will carry on Alberta have its plan but the problem is Alberta pulls out well then the
00:00:45.300 rest of the country has to pay more and they will get less but you see that's been the problem from
00:00:49.920 the beginning that's why Alberta is looking at pulling out of the plan it's not getting a good 1.00
00:00:54.940 or a fair deal. So what are you going to do about it though Justin? That's the thing you're not going
00:00:59.720 to stand by as anyone seeks to weaken pensions because you know what it will not weaken the
00:01:04.140 Alberta pensioners if Alberta pulls out of the plan but yes it will weaken the plan for the rest of the
00:01:09.900 country. So are you going to try and ban Alberta from doing something that they're allowed to
00:01:15.280 right in the legislation that governs the Canadian pension plan? It's right in there. The formula is in
00:01:21.200 the plan as to how a province can pull out should it choose to and how to calculate the amount of
00:01:27.340 funds it's entitled to. What are you going to do? Rewrite the legislation retroactively? Again folks
00:01:33.200 that gets me back to that talking about getting out of confederation. I mean he's just going to keep 0.68
00:01:38.880 rewriting the rules as we go. I've used that analogy on here before and I'm going to keep calling
00:01:44.460 him up. My cousin Craig, I'll use his name this time. When we were kids he used to always play these
00:01:48.340 these stupid card games. You get us playing cards and he'd make up a game and then you try to play
00:01:53.340 the game and you play by his rules and you play a card and you put it down. He says oh no you can't
00:01:58.140 play that card because of this rule. You can't play that card because of that rule and that's what he
00:02:02.040 would do and this is how the government's working with things. We've got our set of rules. It's called
00:02:05.500 the confederation or the constitution I should say but they seem to play loose and free with the
00:02:12.320 rules within that constitution as we're seeing with the when the supreme court told them your
00:02:15.960 legislation clashes with the constitution. Your legislation breaks the rules of Canada. Your
00:02:21.280 legislation is no good. You have to pull it. Well they're saying no no we can come at this just from
00:02:26.800 another angle. No you can't. It's you broke the rules but now they just change the rules as they go.
00:02:32.380 Likewise with the Alberta pension plan you know consideration. Well if Alberta's looking to leave
00:02:37.300 the plans based on the rules within the plan who on earth are you to suddenly say we can't.
00:02:42.700 That's how it was written up Mr. Trudeau. Get somebody to read it to you. I know you need a
00:02:48.220 little help with those things. Maybe if we put the legislation governing the Canada pension plan into
00:02:52.240 a pop-up book Justin Trudeau could be brought into understanding how it works. So if you change
00:02:59.080 those rules retroactively you screw Albertans who have been over contributing into that plan for 0.97
00:03:02.900 decades. Again the support for secession in Alberta that's sitting around 25 percent on average
00:03:09.340 it will only grow because that's when people more people start to realize the deck is stacked against
00:03:15.060 us. They're gonna no matter how you try to play within the rules they will just change the rules.