CategoryProvincial Rights
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Continue Reading →: Remain, and Do What?
Remain, and Do What?
The case against separation, and what its advocates propose instead Text prepared for the Alberta and the West Assembly · September 19, 2026 · Marco Navarro-Génie · written version, revised September 21, 2026 Good morning. Thank you, co-chairs Preston Manning and Gordon Campbell, for the opportunity to contribute to this Assembly. Thank you also to…
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Continue Reading →: An Immigrant Reads the Immigration Questions
An Immigrant Reads the Immigration Questions
Folks who readily accept qualifying other people as “racialized” are the most frequent users of the “racist” accusation. This is the second part of a multi-part series leading up to the October 19 Alberta Referenda. I arrived in this country as an adolescent, with two languages to learn in a new country and a revolution…
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Continue Reading →: Quebec Did Not Get Poorer by Wanting to Leave. It Got Poor by Governing.
Quebec Did Not Get Poorer by Wanting to Leave. It Got Poor by Governing.
The 1980 referendum didn’t empty Montreal. It was the socio-economic program. On Epiphany (January 6), 1978, Sun Life Assurance announced that it was moving its swanky head office to rented space in Toronto. Someone spray-painted “Bon débarras,” good riddance, on their Dominion Square massive granite building in Montreal. Montreal Exchange brokers called the day Black…
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Continue Reading →: Alberta Has Been Asking Its Voters Questions Since 1915
Alberta Has Been Asking Its Voters Questions Since 1915
This is the first essay in a series that begins today, 1 September 2026, the 121st anniversary of Alberta’s founding, and runs until after the referendum of 19 October. The series will cover the questions on that ballot, arguments of Albertans voting yes and no, key features of Alberta political culture, and how Albertans have…
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Continue Reading →: The Separation Meme That Gets the Constitution Wrong
The Separation Meme That Gets the Constitution Wrong
An anonymous infographic claims Alberta separation is constitutionally illegitimate because treaties and Confederation came first. This brief argues otherwise: Canada’s Constitution permits secession negotiations, treaties include land cession clauses, and constitutional arrangements have repeatedly changed through negotiation and democratic consent.
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Continue Reading →: The Uniform of Orthodoxy
The Uniform of Orthodoxy
What Habel’s statement confirms is what many suspected: the RCMP is as captured an institution under Prime Minister Carney as it was under Justin Trudeau. It treats ideological defection from radical gender theory as a threat vector.
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Continue Reading →: Alberta deserves a police force that reflects its values
Alberta deserves a police force that reflects its values
Sgt. Habel seriously, not because she speaks truth, but because she speaks for power. Her words reveal how deeply progressive ideology has colonized public institutions. Where once dissent was tolerated, now doubt itself is a diagnostic tool.
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Continue Reading →: Why does a post-national state need a national broadcaster?
Why does a post-national state need a national broadcaster?
Over 630 nations inhabit Canada, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau claims that it is a “post-national” state, not a nation. If Canada isn’t a nation, what nation does the “national” broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) serve?
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Continue Reading →: Toward the Alberta Advantage
Toward the Alberta Advantage
Late in 1978 and early 1979, the Peter Lougheed government embarked on a mission to lower the “small business” income tax in Alberta. This move accompanied Alberta’s withdrawal from a federal tax collection agreement, marking a significant milestone in what we now recognize as The Alberta Advantage. The historical context of Alberta’s departure from the federal…
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Continue Reading →: Rehabilitating the Charter of Rights
Rehabilitating the Charter of Rights
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms needs to be rehabilitated. The COVID-19 regime caused enormous damage to individual rights and their protections in Canada. But nothing is forever, and citizens and their governments can push for the Charter to be rehabilitated. That can be done by insisting that Charter rights are respected and enforced.…