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The article looks at Pooled Registration Pension Plan (PRPPs) savings tool in Canada as of summer 2013. PRPPs are described as portable pensions that would follow employees from job to job. Topics include some provinces' preference for the existing Canada Pension Plan, the administration of PRPPs by a third party bank or insurance company, and the expected rolling out of the PRPPs in the provinces Alberta and Saskatchewan in 2013.

The article reports that the governments of the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan are at odds with elements in the Canadian federal government and with the United States. Alberta and Saskatchewan do not wish to share large budget surpluses, earned as a result of high global prices for natural resources, with the rest of the country. The U.S. is considering a ban on the petroleum produced from the oil sands found in the region.