“...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/
The Liberals must stop growing the public service and instead find ways to boost the economy
(Really, get off our backs and get out of the way. That's all it would take)
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/fire-the-bureaucrats
https://wokewatchcanada.substack.com/p/did-the-rcmps-indigenous-policing