Alberta government abandons promise of in-person meetings on quitting national pension plan
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith did not answer why her government abandoned its promise to hold in-person meetings in December on quitting the Canada Pension Plan (CPP).
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Smith says nearly 100,000 people participated in 5 recent telephone town halls on potentially exiting the CPP.
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Jim Dinning, chair of the CPP exit committee, had previously promised face-to-face town hall meetings would be held in December.
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The opposition NDP says in-person meetings would be harder for the government to control compared to telephone town halls.
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An Alberta Federation of Labour open letter calls on Dinning's committee to resign, saying it shuts down callers who disagree with leaving the CPP.