Wednesday, August 15, 2018

CALGARY'S TRIPLE-PENSION CLUB

   The latest outrage-inducing revelation from the gilded, feathered nest at city hall once again comes from the good folk at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
   Unlike most of us private-sector workers in Alberta — 76 per cent of whom don’t have workplace pension plans — 236 city employees are set to get not one, not two, but three registered pension plans courtesy of taxpayers.
   “It’s a top-up pension on top of a top-up pension on top of a pension that describes itself as ‘quite generous’,” said Colin Craig, the Alberta director of the CTF, who filed a freedom of information request with the city that revealed the damning information.

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