this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2024
113 points (100.0% liked)

Canada

9439 readers
1290 users here now

What's going on Canada?



Related Communities


🍁 Meta


🗺️ Provinces / Territories


🏙️ Cities / Local Communities

Sorted alphabetically by city name.


🏒 SportsHockey

Football (NFL): incomplete

Football (CFL): incomplete

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer


💻 Schools / Universities

Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.


💵 Finance, Shopping, Sales


🗣️ Politics


🍁 Social / Culture


Rules

  1. Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.

  2. Election Interference / Misinformation

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca


founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Alberta intends to opt out of the proposed national pharmacare plan.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In an email to Global News on Sunday, Alberta’s health minister said that if the federal government pursues a national pharmacare program, Alberta intends to opt out, and instead intends to obtain a full per capita share of the funding.

So they can just pocket the money like that with no strings attached? wth

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

This is the same government that thinks if they leave the CPP, they'll get 55% of the value that's in the CPP.

Clearly, math IS hard.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am sure their math will be just as poor for this as it was for the Pension Plan

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah how's that going? (I don't live in Alberta.)

It seems to me this idea of opting out of federal programmes might score some quick political points if you're a have-province, in that it could be argued you're sinking more into them than you're getting out. But Alberta has historically had a boom-and-bust economy, and as such, cutting those federal lifelines seems unwise. But what do I know?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I DO live in Alberta, and the general consensus is that (a) almost nobody wants to leave the CPP, but (b) Smith will make it happen, regardless of logic or the will of the people.