🇨🇦 Alberta tells employers to pay for Ottawa’s aging-policy hangover

Here’s the scam in plain English: Alberta says workers over 65 should keep their benefits, but instead of the province paying, employers get the bill starting Oct. 1. So the state calls it fairness, and small business gets a new penalty for hiring older Canadians. Even the ministry admits government plans are now just a safety net while private plans become first payer, as reported. Translation: offload public costs onto payroll and pretend nothing changed.

This is what late-stage managerial Canada looks like. Trudeau-era economic stagnation keeps more seniors working, StatsCan shows labour participation for 65-plus rose from 14.2 per cent in 2021 to 15.2 per cent in 2025, and the answer from the political class is to make those workers more expensive to employ. Brilliant. Fewer incentives to hire seniors, pricier benefits, more pressure on small firms, and another quiet step toward a two-tier system dressed up as compassion. The regime creates the distortion, then invoices the productive class for cleaning it up.

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