• Alberta Pension Fact-Check

  • Sep 29 2023
  • Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
  • Podcast

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Alberta Pension Fact-Check

  • Summary

  • (September 2023) The Alberta Government recently announced its intention to move forward with splitting from the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and creating a separate Alberta Pension Plan (APP). Senator Simons speaks with University of Calgary professors Dr. Lindsay Tedds and Dr. Trevor Tombe about the possibility of Alberta moving out of the Canada Pension Plan and about the Alberta Pension Plan report that was released earlier this month.

    Following this new discussion of the APP report is a rebroadcast of our February 2023 episode, in which Senator Simons speaks to a panel of experts about the Canadian Pension Plan and the pros and cons of a possible Alberta Pension Plan.

    Panelists: Dr. Lindsay Tedds, Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Calgary;

    Deborah Yedlin, President & CEO of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce;

    Ricardo Acuna, Executive Director of the Parkland Institute;

    Dr. Trevor Tombe, Professor of Economics at the University of Calgary; and

    Dr. Leo de Bever, Senior Fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute.

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