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By Canadian Press

Provincial Politics

Telephone town hall hears growing calls for hard numbers before taking Alberta pension plan idea to referendum

Oct 25, 2023 | 1:23 PM

EDMONTON – The panel gathering feedback on whether Alberta should quit the Canada Pension Plan is hearing renewed calls to get some hard numbers before the issue goes to a referendum.

Jim Dinning’s panel took calls from residents in southern Alberta in the second of five telephone town halls.

A number of callers say the government needs to negotiate and nail down with the feds exactly how much Alberta will get from the C-P-P before it has a vote on whether or not to go it alone.

Right now, the government is relying on a third-party report that says Alberta is entitled to leave the C-P-P with 334-billion-dollars.

That is more than half the C-P-P fund’s assets.

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One caller told Dinning that it is quote “insanity” to think the federal government will let Alberta leave with half the C-P-P.

(The Canadian Press)