TagAlberta Autonomy
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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 →: Break the Fences, Keep the Frontier
Break the Fences, Keep the Frontier
Alberta leads Canada in prosperity by dismantling barriers, but old guilds and new obstacles—subsidies, DEI mandates, and debanking—threaten progress. To remain the frontier, Alberta must keep tearing down walls and driving economic freedom forward.
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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 Must Build a Financial Fortress Now
Alberta Must Build a Financial Fortress Now
Ottawa’s Emergencies Act abuses and banks’ actions show dissenters can be de‑banked without charges. Alberta must fortify ATB, assert sovereignty, and guarantee financial rights to protect Albertans from federal overreach.
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Continue Reading →: Why the Canada Pension Plan Is a Ponzi Scheme
Why the Canada Pension Plan Is a Ponzi Scheme
The following is an abridgement of chapter 4 in the recently published book Financial Sovereignty for Canadians (March 2024), authored by Fergus Hodgson. It is published here with the author’s kind permission. There is a silver lining to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s pursuit of a provincial pension system. Alberta’s potential departure from the Canada Pension…
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Continue Reading →: No justice for West in “Just Transition”
No justice for West in “Just Transition”
The “Just Transition” legislation that Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh want to introduce represents terrible news for hydrocarbon energy producers and workers in Alberta and Saskatchewan. The “People-Centered Just Transition” federal proposal sends up red flags from the title onward. It bears the hallmark pretense of caring about people. But governments prioritise systems instead of…