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Interesting tidbit from that Tombe's article to Globe & Mail, estimates that even at a Smith Fairy Tale level of asset transfer the premium increase for the remainder of Canada would only be ~1%. At a reasonable asset transfer number that would be much much less. Realistically, Albertans...

Actually we moved from a 20-25% Trevor Tombe reasonable offer rangeto a 16-18% based on recent years % of national annual contribution reasonable offer, with that 16-18% expected to cover the applicable benefits non-residents of Alberta who have made contributions through Albertan employment.

At an appropriate transfer level, and properly assuming responsibility for all obligations and liabilities associated with employment income from Alberta since 1965, there will be some impact to Canadians of all political affiliations, but not enough to make it a major electoral issue. Lets say...

Noticed an interesting discrepancies/ interpretations between the Lifeworks report and the act In LifeWorks Executive Summary 4. Assume all obligations and liabilities accrued and accruing in the CPP for members residing in the province up to the beginning of the third year following notice...

But that's not the transfer amount that has been used to build the sales pitch. And that's what it is - a salespitch. Smith wants this to happen, and has for decades. Polling suggests the majority of Albertans don't. To get what she wants, Smith is either honestly/dishonestly (don't know which...

And that's what makes me come back to how crazy publishing that number was. Sure. Everyone with basic understanding is going to dismiss it - (as I pointed out)- seems we're all on board with that now. But... it's still the Premier's number, the number underpinning the plan that is going to be...

See, the bold is where I take issue, and with the pedantic doublespeak that gender dysphoria is not a mental illness/condition/disorder/whathave you. It's ideologically driven dogma based on the bolded false equivalency/ the fear of the slippery slope to that false equivalency. But is is a...

I come to what I said a few weeks ago. The political cost benefit of trying to brazen this out was awful. It could have ended with a reversal and Clark resignation the day the AG report came out. Easy out. But it didn't. Major unforced error, or non-political pressure?

And when Ontario does it too (and faster- super majority) and there's not enough money to go around? We throw out the formula born of that interpretation as non-viable and use one more grounded in common sense.

Which, as has been pointed out, can be done, and done easily- with 20% of the fund- a number calculated using the same sections of the act but with a more nuanced interpretation that takes into account reforms that have happened since it was written.

I have. I have also read this- particularly section 4.2 on page 14. The Smith proposed asset transfer is the most generous calculation of the most most generous interpretation of the applicable section. It is in no way an authoritative or binding view. It will not stand. Alberta can leave...

A- would you define a fund promising to pay greater benefits with reduced premiums as "equivalent"? B- Acts can be changed.

Are BC, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba now Central and Eastern Canada? No one will panic, the adults in the room will categorically reject a formula that would result in greater than 100% of the assets needing to be divided if every province would withdraw- which they will threaten to do. The real...

Combination of caucus backlash and his needing the digging to stop. Having a second minister (and the Premiers Office housing guy) forced to resign because of ties to a firm that not only benefited from the landswap but has had several MZO's issued in their favour is the kind of thing that...

The actual Angus Reid release is quite interesting. I'm really hoping that their methodology allows for call backs to and cross-analyses of the upcoming topics within the personas they identified.

I'll take that action. Looking just at the 9' ceiling- thats a minimum 12.5% spread on applicable material volume - wall insulation/ interior and exterior cladding, studs, before getting into the premium for non standard product- 54 inch sheetrock instead of 48, 9ft studs instead of 8. The...

"...type armoured bus that can carry 10 plus people in relative safety" The Commando vanguard and select are both 3+7, could have fit the bill (ish, depending how how important the "plus" is) as such an output from the TAPV project. If we had 500 of those instead of 500 Elites messed up during...

I've multiple (literally every single) time specified that this would be an objective for production homes in large scale developments- the majority of the 20k SDH's built annually in Ontario. Rural / semi rural custom SDH's on one off lots are a drop in the bucket, and not part of this...

Heh. So 2 of the 3 Commando variants. Not the one we picked.

Ah. So not in your back yard? Decreasing in SDH size is increasing the density in the lo density band. It's the same thing, just not to the same extent. And incentivizing isn't making mandatory.