The Canadian Federation of Independent Business says there needs to be a national deep dive on the numbers to determine exactly what the impacts would be if Alberta left the Canada Pension Plan.

Brianna Solberg, Saskatchewan provincial director for the CFIB, says it is imperative that Canadians are given a full picture of the facts associated with a proposed Alberta Pension Plan because business owners who pay fifty per cent of the costs of the Canada Pension Plan deserve an unbiased assessment of any proposed changes.

Solberg says it is understandable Albertans are unhappy about unfair treatment from the federal government including the latest example involving carbon tax exemption on home heating oil for some Atlantic Canadians.

Last week, the federal government announced a carbon tax exemption on home heating oil for some Atlantic Canadians but no other Canadians.  Thursday in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said 20,000 Saskatchewan residents, 50, 000 Alberta residents and approximately 100,000 B.C. residents use home heating oil but instead of being made exempt from the carbon tax like those in the Maritimes, the federal government says it will provide them with heat pumps, for free, to lower income families.