Alberta Pension Plan Archives

September 26th, 2023 - Alberta Pension Plan, Alberta Politics, Premier Danielle Smith

Danielle Smith’s Pension Trickery: Why Voters Might Just Fall for It

Albertans have a long history of swallowing fantasies sold by Conservative leaders.

Danielle Smith is coming for your pension. Is this her Brexit moment?

Her dream of an Alberta Pension Plan would remove half the assets of the CPP, according to a report the province commissioned.

About Graham

Graham Thomson is an Edmonton-based political commentator.

He is best known as a writer for the Edmonton Journal where he spent 25 years, almost all of them helping readers make sense of Alberta politics. Graham quit The Journal in September of 2018. But he did not quit the news media.

He is still writing about politics, still analyzing, still opining, still thanking politicians for providing so much humour.

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Graham has two daughters, two sons-in-law, three grandchildren, and one Wheaten Terrier.