Before taking their latest chance to weigh in on the wisdom of exiting the Canada Pension Plan, Albertans must first watch a five-minute video, most of which tries to persuade them how great an idea it is.

The promise of lower premiums and higher benefits hasn’t sold well in the past. We recently learned that only 10 per cent of respondents favoured the idea in the 2023 round of government consultations on an Alberta pension plan.

But with her Alberta Next feedback project, Premier Danielle Smith is treating this as a new day, full of fresh possibilities to alter the province’s place within Canada on finances, constitutional powers, immigration and more.

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    2 days ago

    The fact that they keep pushing for this, despite people telling them repeatedly they don’t like it, tells me this is a scam.

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      They want to feed Alberta’s pension fund into the O&G industry.

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    It’s just a typo.

    She meant to call it the “Alberta Nazi” panel.