{"id":192955,"date":"2025-12-20T05:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/192955\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T05:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:36:09","slug":"next-steps-recommended-for-ab-pensions-police-referendums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/192955\/","title":{"rendered":"Next steps recommended for AB pensions, police, referendums"},"content":{"rendered":"

No final decisions on the following topics have been made at this time. <\/p>\n

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The recommendations are as follows:<\/p>\n

Continue to build and support institutions for trusted, responsible self-government to reduce Alberta\u2019s dependence on Ottawa and strengthen Alberta\u2019s respect within the federation.
\nProvide Albertans with a detailed Alberta Pension Plan proposal outlining what benefits, management structure, contribution rates and implementation plan an APP would include. A provincial referendum asking Albertans whether to establish an APP and exit the CPP should only be scheduled after this proposal is provided to Albertans.
\nComplete a detailed cost-benefit analysis for Alberta collecting its own personal income taxes for future consideration by Albertans, but do not schedule a referendum on this issue at this time.
\nTake a leading role in working with other provinces and the federal government to reform equalization and fiscal federalism.
\nContinue with the ongoing work of establishing an Alberta Police Service (APS) to provide policing services in Alberta\u2019s rural and small city communities, and transition community policing services from the RCMP to the APS and municipal policing services.
\nProceed to a provincial referendum on the provincial government exercising more control over immigration.
\nProceed to a provincial referendum on Alberta working with other provinces on specific constitutional amendments to protect provincial jurisdiction, including:<\/p>\n

Protecting provincial areas of jurisdiction from federal interference.
\nA provincial right to opt-out of federal programs affecting provincial jurisdiction without losing the associated funding.
\nPermitting provinces to appoint their own King\u2019s Bench and Court of Appeal Justices.
\nAbolishing the unelected federal Senate.<\/p>\n

The Alberta Next panel meetings were attended by over 5,000 people. Livestreams of the town halls have roughly 80,000 views. Each of the six surveys hosted on the panel\u2019s website has between 6,000 and 12,000 responses.<\/p>\n

You can see the panel\u2019s report on the recommendations here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alberta NDP leader Naheed Nenshi issued the following statement on the Alberta Next panel\u2019s recommendations:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis government spent millions of dollars of taxpayer money on a biased process where Albertans were routinely silenced or disrespected if they disagreed with the pre-formed outcomes. Now they want to spend millions more on non-binding referendums that Albertans don\u2019t want and didn\u2019t ask for. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe UCP wants to pull Alberta out of the RCMP, take control of seniors\u2019 hard-earned pensions, and take over jurisdiction of immigration, all for their own political gain. These are not small changes. They are costly, destabilizing proposals that risk Alberta\u2019s economic prosperity, undermine investor confidence, and put public services at risk. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it\u2019s no surprise that the UCP tried to keep this hidden, refusing to release the panel results for months, only to make them available late on a Friday afternoon as Albertans get ready for the Christmas break.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur team of Alberta\u2019s New Democrats held our own series town halls throughout the summer and across the province. Thousands of Albertans took part. We heard that Albertans want a government focused on lowering the cost of living, creating good jobs, and protecting public health care and education. We know that Canada and Alberta are better together, and that unity, not division, is the way forward for a better Alberta. <\/p>\n

\u201cDanielle Smith did not run on these proposals; indeed, she ran against many of them. If she believes Albertans are with her, she should call an election now.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No final decisions on the following topics have been made at this time. The recommendations are as follows:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":{"0":"post-192955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-personal-finance","14":"tag-personalfinance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}