Canada's finance ministers set to hold meeting on proposed Alberta pension plan
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Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says she'll be holding a meeting with her provincial and territorial counterparts to discuss Alberta's pension proposal.
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says she'll be holding a meeting with her provincial and territorial counterparts to discuss Alberta's pension proposal.
Last month, the province said it is exploring pulling out of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP).
The idea has been garnering widespread negative feedback, and it hasn't just been limited to Alberta's ideological enemies.
Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre expressed his disapproval last week, and on Wednesday, another Alberta ally echoed the sentiment.
Ontario's Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy wrote an open letter to Freeland to request an "urgent meeting" of finance ministers – and it's a request Freeland said she's accepted.
"We will be convening a special meeting of the provincial, territorial and federal finance ministers to talk about the Canada Pension Plan," the deputy PM said in Calgary.
She also told reporters she has spoken with Nova Scotia's Finance Minister Allan MacMaster about the proposal.
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