John Williams called the OCPP a 'betrayal of trust' by the city

The City of Calgary’s highest-paid bureaucrats are double-dipping when it comes to their pension — and it’s cost taxpayers more than $130 million in the last quarter-century, a fiscal watchdog alleged Tuesday.

But the city disputes those figures, and argues such pension top-ups are common across Alberta.

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The Over Cap Pension Plan (OCPP), which was created in 1999, provides a supplemental pension top-up for some of the city’s highest-paid, non-unionized employees, as well as the chiefs of the police and fire departments.

At a news conference in Crescent Heights Tuesday morning, John Williams, founder of the Alberta Public Affairs Corp., said freedom of information requests submitted by his group revealed

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