I hate Trudeau as much as the next conservative, but that's just terrible reporting. Pension funds invest in infrastructure all the time (toll bridges, toll roads, etc). They provide a fairly stable low risk long term return. Heck, doesn't AIMCO (our own provincial investment manager) own a toll road in Columbia or something?
The article makes it sound like he'd loot the CPP bank accounts to pay for infrastructure with no return.
Now, if he pushed the CPP to invest in Canadian infrastructure at the expense of higher or less risky returns elsewhere that would be a big problem.
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