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Originally Posted by BlackArcher101
Alberta is not not losing capital, you have to get rid of this baffling notion. To think so would mean that if we were to "keep it" you'd have to put that money into an APP and give the Alberta gov access to it, or have them direct it into heavier local investments. Then we wouldn't be "losing it" but that would not be beneficial to you or I.
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What I mean is because we have a younger population we have a higher percentage of the population than average contributing and a lower percentage of the population than average receiving benefits so we subsidize provinces with older populations. That has been going on since the cpp inception and probably isn’t going to change.