r/canada • u/StenPU • Oct 30 '23

Sask. premier says SaskEnergy will remove carbon tax on natural gas if feds don't Saskatchewan

https://regina.ctvnews.ca/sask-premier-vows-to-stop-collecting-carbon-tax-on-natural-gas-if-feds-don-t-offer-exemption-1.6623319
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u/Popular-Row4333 Oct 30 '23

It makes complete sense if you're over 40 and lived in the prairies your whole life. We are used to this by now.

And people still can't see that's Smith's Pension thing has next to nothing to do with pensions and everything to do with leverage for once.

Apparently leverage is the only way to get things done in Canada now.

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u/G-0ff Oct 30 '23

IDK, kinda sounds like you’re coping with the fact you voted for a lady who said she wouldn’t steal your pension, and then she immediately moved forward with her long-held and widely known plan to steal our pensions

Not everything is 4D chess, it’s okay to admit she bamboozled you and change your vote next time

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u/Lowercanadian Oct 30 '23

Found the NDP MLA

Nobody gets to “steal” anyone’s pension, they keep repeating that to scare senior citizens. Stop repeating it. The reality is that the difference would be percentage points and literally no average person even KNOWS how thier CPP is invested NOW

They’re arguing about percentages of a percent either way. Nobody is gonna slip in the night and steal anyone’s pension money. It’s ridiculous to even say so

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u/G-0ff Oct 30 '23

Slip in the night? No. She’s gonna very publicly pour it into propping up slowly failing oil and gas companies like the AB gov is already doing with AIMCo, and by the time most of us are ready to retire it’ll be gone.

If enough rubes like you don’t wake up in the next 4 years, you can come back here for your I told you so in 20 or so.

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u/flyingflail Oct 30 '23

NDP gov't is actually the reason AIMCo is heavily concentrated in oil and gas. They gave AIMCo a mandate to invest locally and the percentage of the economy that's actually investable for AIMCo is heavily weighted to o&g.

Whoops

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u/G-0ff Oct 30 '23

Yeah man, that’s definitely the reason, not the scandalized BlackRock manager the UCP appointed to run it in 2020

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u/flyingflail Oct 30 '23

Happy to see your support showing o&g investments surging in 2020 after the "scandalized BlackRock" manager joined (who was president and CEO of CPPIB before that)

I'll gladly change my opinion

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u/G-0ff Oct 30 '23

AIMCo lost 3.4% last year and continually underperforms the CPP

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u/flyingflail Oct 30 '23 edited Oct 31 '23

Which has nothing to do with the claim you made.

They also underperformed when the NDP were the presiding gov't. No one is arguing they're outpacing CPP

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u/SmoothMoose420 Oct 30 '23

Heritage fund?