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/
“Biggest Transnational Crime Group on Earth”: Why Canada Must Break Free From China
A group of top national security experts is sounding the alarm: Canada’s relationship with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has crossed from economic engagement into a full-blown democratic threat.
At a Dec. 6 forum in Toronto, former RCMP proceeds-of-crime director Garry Clement called the CCP “the biggest transnational organized crime group ever seen,” warning that Beijing is actively infiltrating Canada’s political, business, and cultural institutions. Through the United Front Work Department, the CCP co-opts elites, business leaders, community organizations, and media outlets—while intimidating and surveilling dissidents “on a daily basis.”
Clement also linked Beijing to the fentanyl crisis, saying the CCP could shut down precursor shipments to Canada “if they really wanted to,” but instead allows the flow as a form of “disruptive warfare,” echoing the tactics of the Opium Wars....
