Another Perspective
“...after it was all said and done a year later, I decided to see if I could afford early retirement rather than spending more of my life in an office. So I moved to Alberta to be closer to family.”
"Can Danielle Smith really get her hands on my CPP contributions?” she asks. “My whole career, 42 years, was in Ontario. I don’t buy her snake oil sales pitch about bonuses and higher pension payments for seniors. I have a decent portfolio but I need that CPP. At this age I really don’t want to move again. But I will if I have to.”
In case you missed it amid all the interest rate-India-Nazi news lately, the conservative premier of Alberta is making noise about pulling her citizens out of the Canada Pension Plan and setting up a separate one. Like in Quebec. But Quebec never joined CPP, so Canada has not seen a province opt out – and people like Joyce are seriously concerned what it might mean.
https://www.greaterfool.ca/2023/09/26/daft/
That version of history explains everything.
It explains the housing crisis. It explains the energy restrictions. It explains the immigration pressure. It explains the economic stagnation. It explains why a sitting Deputy Prime Minister stood in front of graduates at an American university and asked, out loud, whether capitalist democracy still works.
None of what is happening to Canada is an accident.
The Present Is the Evidence
To understand how Canada arrived at this moment, you first have to look honestly at what is happening right now.
Across Canadian media and social media, a coordinated narrative has been building around what is being called the problem of empty bedrooms. On the surface it sounds like a housing conversation. Look closer and it is something else entirely. The pressure being applied, particularly on elderly Canadians and grandparents who have lived in their homes for decades, is to downsize. To give up their multi-bedroom homes. To turn their large homes into apartment blocks. ...
Nenshi should step down, fined, be taken to court for dereliction of duty or be removed from current leadership role due to breach of authority while in a position of power, poor memory & proved blatant deceit causing destruction & financial burden unnecessarily …. The records prove it & clarify it! His two in command should not be absolved either for not going to council when Nenshi did not! Calgarians should not be left with the costing when it should have been unnecessary! It’s called Accountability…..
