Alberta should expect 'complex and multi-year process' if it leaves CPP: Freeland
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If Alberta wants to leave the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and create its own, it should be prepared for a long and complicated process according to Canada’s finance minister, who met with her provincial counterparts on Friday.
If Alberta wants to leave the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and create its own, it should be prepared for a long and complicated process according to Canada’s finance minister, who met with her provincial counterparts on Friday.
“Alberta has the right to make its choice, but it is an issue that involves and touches on every single Canadian,” said Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland.
“It would be a complex and multi-year process and it would be taking place at a time of real uncertainty, geopolitical uncertainty, global economic uncertainty.”
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