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A report commissioned by Alberta’s UCP government says if it left the Canada Pension Plan, the province is entitled to take over half the plan’s hundreds of billions worth of assets with it.
Why have analysts ridiculed the estimate?
Why is the UCP spending millions on a push to leave the CPP?
What could an Alberta exit mean for pensions across the country?
CBC writer and producer Jason Markusoff explains.
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