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Danielle Smith has Trudeau and Freeland on their heels. Constitutionally she is justified in Alberta having its own pension plan. Quebec has its own plan. Smith needs to continue being steely in her demands for Alberta’s rights. Trudeau, Freeland, nor Ford from Ontario or any other province dictates to Alberta its own right. If secession is the only tenable option it should take it. Place no trust in Trudeau or Freeland .

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I am 100% in favour of an Alberta Pension Plan and consider it a no brainer. The province contributes 3 billion or more every year compared to what is paid back to entitled recipients. That 3 billion plus dollars is reason enough for me. The Alberta portion of the current assets of the fund is estimated at approximately 340 billion. What's not to like about that.

As for the other provinces and the federal government it would be a necessary wake up call that Alberta is fed up with feeding them free money year after year. Political opponents will use the usual tactics of fear, smear, lies to demonize Alberta but that is already happening so no change there. The federal government will be forced to increase CPP premiums on the other provinces to maintain and sustain the fund and frankly I don't give a shit. This gravy train entitlement attitude needs to stop and this pension plan is a good place to start that process. Besides, justin is now getting the CPP fund managers to increasingly invest in green tech and anything that has the ESG label on it. I say to hell with that because it smells like a black hole of money laundering, corruption and a money pit of garbage products. Wind turbines and solar panels are also subsidized by the federal government when they are pawned off to the provinces and the installation companies push solar panels as a discount when in fact it is just another line item expenditure in the Edmonton city budget. These panels are then bought by wealthy people who can afford the installation charge and of course shingles that will last another 20 or more years. The average home owner cannot afford to buy these panels and the installation fee yet they are subsidizing the more wealthy people who do buy. This is wrong when the financially lower class support the more wealthy people. It's another scam that needs to stop. Most of this garbage is manufactured in China while they increasingly infiltrate and control Canada . This insanity needs to stop and I hope Smith can put together the necessary information in a public statement aimed directly at the federal government. Then watch them react with their usual arrogant bluster absent of any real facts.

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Alberta, just do it ! Or have another Trudeau dipp into your CPP like Justin has and his father before him. Protect your future and do this. Yes Justin did when it was illegal; he dipped in and bought housing for 3rd world Countries; virtue signalling off of our backs. CPP has nothing to do with federal Gov’t, it is between YOUR contributions & YOUR EMPLOYERS, period. There is no federal cash. BUT, for what ever reason the Federal CANADIAN Gov’t has dipped in while QPP has the insolation of their provincial Gov’t.

Albertan’s you are not screwing Canadians by separating your CPP. Your Federal CDN Gov’t has done that ! This Trudeau as well, whom nobody trusts anymore. The moral story is that had The Federal Gov’t’s never dipped into this Employee/Employer before; none of us would need another pension to live on !

Think about that ? Your Federal Gov’t including now the opposition plead with you to rethink ! Rethink there abuse of something that doesn’t belong to them ! The opposition, sleeping at the switch allowed Justin and Pierre to screw all of us CDN citizens. You need to relabel your portion of your pension, thats it ! Then like Quebec, control the VIRTUE SIGNALLING POLITICIANS that dipp in and use something you all ready paid for to make themselves look good. It merely means the difference of retiring at 65 or their proposed Age 72. Some people don’t want to work at all, You can pay for them also!

Wake up Alberta, this is cut and dried.

We’ve been paying for political screw ups far too long. This is something each one of you/us has earned ! Protect it and say yes to APP

Alberta Pension plan. Shame on Pierre Poilievre for backing Trudeau on this. He should have stopped him again in2015 or so when again the Fed Gov’t screwed every Canadian. Please pass this on if you agree.

I’m from Sask. and I want to do it. Mr. Moe where the H--l are you on this. Don’t be quiet, join Danielle Smith. The Fed Gov’t has no right directing our CPP; it’s not there’s to suggest !

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As a retired Albertan I can agree wholeheartedly with Danielle Smith with the Alberta Pension Plan and her common sense approach to the power grid problems associated with wind and solar energy storage. In Arizona where the sunshines 80 % of the year. In winter the climate there is akin to our summer. The Arizona Electric Company has been having power storage issues with not enough reliable storage to manage the their summer heat starting around the end of April. With the use of A/C and the growing number of EV’s they are having brown out and outages. As is California.

They do have 3 water reservoirs that the dams produce power and they rely on winter snow in the high northern parts of AZ and rain in the Phoenix Valley for power.

The most proven environmental source of energy is nuclear and natural gas which the climate scamists fear the most.

People must learn from what doesn’t work.

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