Good Friday morning, Finance Minister CHRYSTIA FREELAND will be looking to tame Alberta’s ambitions to leave the Canada Pension Plan today, when she convenes a remote meeting of the provincial and territorial finance ministers. All Freeland’s counterparts from across the country have been invited to attend the virtual gathering, which is set to get underway at noon, Eastern Time.
executive director of the Institute for Research on Public Policy’s Centre of Excellence on the Canadian Federation, told PTM that because of this ambiguity, one upside of the current debate is it may help to clarify what the process is if a province does ever want to leave the plan. Quebec, the only province that is not part of the CPP, has never been a member, so the process of a province leaving has never been tested.
will argue in favour of the motion. Opposition to the motion will come from both poles of the political spectrum, with U.K. journalist and leftist thinker ASH SARKAR and American author and social conservative SOHRAB AHMARI both arguing against it. The event will take place at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto. Details online.