TagProvincial Rights
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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 →: No Permission Required: Alberta Will Protect Its Daughters
No Permission Required: Alberta Will Protect Its Daughters
Alberta’s wish to invoke Section 33 to defend women and girls from judicial overreach is legitimate. The clause is a democratic tool, not a flaw—essential to protect provincial sovereignty and biological reality.
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Continue Reading →: Your Money, Their Rules: The Rise of Debanking
Your Money, Their Rules: The Rise of Debanking
Ezra Levant kindly invited me to talk about the debanking issue this week. [The interview is available here →]. Debanking refers to the closure of individuals’ or organizations’ bank accounts by financial institutions that perceive them as financial, legal, regulatory, or reputational risks—often carried out without explanation or the possibility of appeal. As the Cambridge…
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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 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 →: Judicial Independence is Crucial to the Rule of Law
Judicial Independence is Crucial to the Rule of Law
From our Economic History textbooks, we learn that the independence and fairness of the British Courts made it attractive for investors to place their money into British ventures during the Industrial Revolution. Foreigners investing in British ventures felt sufficiently confident to bring a cause before a British Court and receive an impartial and fair hearing.…
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Continue Reading →: Risks in Trade Talk Shutdown: India’s Economy and Saskatchewan’s Prosperity
Risks in Trade Talk Shutdown: India’s Economy and Saskatchewan’s Prosperity
Ottawa’s announcement that it is shutting down trade talks with India until India cooperates with the investigation into the murder of a Khalistani terrorist on Canadian soil last June is about much more than it appears. Prime Minister Trudeau is putting the Canada-India trade relationship in greater jeopardy for reasons that are unrelated to trade: First, Trudeau…
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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.…