Freeland also said she would task Canada’s chief actuary to provide an independent estimate regarding what percentage of the Canada Pension Plan’s assets Alberta can rightfully lay claim to, should it choose to withdraw.Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland holds a press conference in Ottawa on Friday, Nov. 3, 2023.
Provincial and territorial finance ministers joined their federal counterpart Chrystia Freeland virtually for a discussion of Alberta’s proposal to leave the Canada Pension Plan , but some left unhappy with what was missing from the meeting’s agenda.following the meeting, Alberta Finance Minister Nate Horner said “several finance ministers” raised the carbon tax issue during Friday’s meeting, but that it was never a topic of discussion.