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Here is what I received this morning about pensions. Have a read. I couldn’t agree more. It’s time to bring our pension and its control home.

When Alberta first proposed the idea of an Alberta Pension Plan, opponents on the left immediately claimed it was a scheme for politicians to seize control of Albertans’ retirement savings.

They warned that the government would use pension money to fund pet projects or make political investments.

That was always absurd.

The idea behind an Alberta Pension Plan was never about political control - it was about independence, fairness, and ensuring that Albertans receive full value for the billions they contribute every year to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP).

We’ve been clear from the start that we would only support an Alberta Pension Plan if it were managed by an independent, non-political board based in Alberta - not by bureaucrats or politicians, and certainly not as a tool for anyone’s agenda.

But ironically, since Alberta began seriously discussing its own plan, Ottawa ...

When we visited Thailand a few years back, we noticed that schools were open from early morning until approx 8 pm. They had shifts of students that attended. Younger students in the morning until mid afternoon and the older grades went later in the day until into the evening.

The Thai people said they did this because it would be a waste for the building to sit empty. They were open air schools, so that waste of classroom space is doubly so for our schools as we pay to heat them for most of the year. Perhaps instead of spending billions of $$ on building new facilities we can just make better use of the existing schools.

Realistically the same can be said for diagnostic equipment and hospital/surgical spaces. Medical facilities and equipment should not be sitting idle and should be in use 24 hours a day.