A UCP government report said the province was entitled to $334 billion. Canada’s top actuary says not even half that.
Mount Royal University political science professor Duane Bratt weighed in on Bluesky with the opinion that “the Smith government will quietly abandon the APP [Alberta pension plan] when there is a change in the federal government. The APP rears its head when there are Liberals in Ottawa, and buries its head when the Conservatives are in office.”
I am not so sure. The UCP brain trust has been singularly focused on the huge sums that could become available to prop up Alberta’s oil and gas sector if it got its paws on CPP assets, so don’t expect this divisive scheme to go away any time soon.
As Bratt lays out, it is clear that the UCP is going to bludgeon ahead with this stupid and unwanted plan, because it serves their agenda and fuck Alberta’s best interests.
So I’m prepared to sign onto whatever formal process needed to oppose this - a lawsuit, a constitutional challenge, protests, whatever it takes for those fuckers to keep their hands off my CPP. The question is, what? What do we do? What’s the process?
I mean the best process is not voting in the bootlickers to begin with. That said, I know the tyranny of the majority is working against us. Best process is to let their supporters go at each other, it’s their voters that have the most to lose here. If that doesn’t work, probably a class action or a constitutional challenge. Constitutional challenge can be overrode by a section 33, but it’s kind of a weird area because premiums are collected at the federal area, meaning it’s a dual federal provincial area. Provinces have to offer a comparable service, that would likely be the best line of attack, as the performances of CPP and AIMco aren’t even in the same stratosphere.
It should be a plebiscite, but we are governed by hillbilly aliens, so…