The Free Alberta Strategy Petition
12,266 signatures
Goal: 100,000 Signatures
The Free Alberta Strategy
Alberta’s treatment within Canada has become intolerable. Successive Federal Governments in Ottawa have relentlessly attacked our Province’s economic interests, stifled our prosperity, and pillaged the resources and wealth of Alberta’s citizens to purchase electoral support in other parts of the country.
Though Albertans have tolerated the expropriation of our wealth for decades, the Federal Government has now advanced its anti-Alberta agenda a bridge too far, posing an existential threat to our Province’s economic viability and the core freedoms of our people.
Ottawa has fundamentally breached its constitutional agreement with Alberta. The Alberta Government, therefore, has a right and duty to repudiate this arrangement on behalf of its people, to renegotiate its terms of membership in Confederation and, if Canada’s federal and provincial leaders refuse to negotiate, to form an independent nation.
We call upon the Government of Alberta to implement the following package of legislative and other reforms, which we summarize as follows:
- Passing into law the Alberta Sovereignty Act, granting the Alberta Legislature absolute discretion to refuse any provincial enforcement of federal legislation or judicial decisions that, in its view, interfere with provincial areas of jurisdiction or constitute an attack on the interests of Albertans. This would include Alberta prohibiting any provincial enforcement of the federal Carbon Tax, the No New Pipelines Act, and attempts by federal agencies to regulate our Province’s energy sector in any manner.
This would necessitate establishing an Alberta Provincial Police Force to replace the RCMP, and passing into law the Alberta Independent Banking Act designed to expand significantly the number of provincially regulated financial institutions for the purpose of providing Alberta businesses and citizens with protection from enforcement of federal legislation or judicial decisions designated as unenforceable by the Alberta Legislature.
- Effectively ending federal equalization transfers from Alberta through passing into law the Equalization Termination and Tax Collection Act. In addition to establishing an Alberta Revenue Agency to collect all provincial taxes, this Act would also grant the Provincial Government authority to recover the total amount of equalization confiscated by the Federal Government from Alberta each year, by withholding from the CRA, an equal amount of federal tax source deductions that are collected by all provincial agencies, municipalities and, at their option, private corporations banking with provincially regulated financial institutions.
- Opting out of all federal programs that interfere with provincial areas of jurisdiction, including health, education, resource development, environmental regulation and property rights. This would include replacing the Canada Pension Plan (“CPP”) and Employment Insurance (“EI”) with an Alberta Pension Plan and Alberta Unemployment Insurance designed to deliver to Alberta pensioners and those who become unemployed higher benefits using lower premiums from Alberta workers.
- Declaring that the Provincial Government will replace the Federal Government as acting authority to negotiate Alberta’s international trade and market access relationships; and further, granting the Provincial Legislature authority to make all future judicial appointments in Alberta through passing into law, the Alberta Judicial Independence Act.
These proposed reforms constitute the key elements of a strategic plan for Alberta to assert its sovereignty, offload the burden of Ottawa’s tyrannical economic policies against the Province, and secure self-determination for the people of Alberta within a reformed confederation, or if necessary, as an independent nation.
We call this proposal, the ‘Free Alberta Strategy’.
12,266 signatures
Goal: 100,000 Signatures
The Free Alberta Strategy
Alberta’s treatment within Canada has become intolerable. Successive Federal Governments in Ottawa have relentlessly attacked our Province’s economic interests, stifled our prosperity, and pillaged the resources and wealth of Alberta’s citizens to purchase electoral support in other parts of the country.
Though Albertans have tolerated the expropriation of our wealth for decades, the Federal Government has now advanced its anti-Alberta agenda a bridge too far, posing an existential threat to our Province’s economic viability and the core freedoms of our people.
Ottawa has fundamentally breached its constitutional agreement with Alberta. The Alberta Government, therefore, has a right and duty to repudiate this arrangement on behalf of its people, to renegotiate its terms of membership in Confederation and, if Canada’s federal and provincial leaders refuse to negotiate, to form an independent nation.
We call upon the Government of Alberta to implement the following package of legislative and other reforms, which we summarize as follows:
- Passing into law the Alberta Sovereignty Act, granting the Alberta Legislature absolute discretion to refuse any provincial enforcement of federal legislation or judicial decisions that, in its view, interfere with provincial areas of jurisdiction or constitute an attack on the interests of Albertans. This would include Alberta prohibiting any provincial enforcement of the federal Carbon Tax, the No New Pipelines Act, and attempts by federal agencies to regulate our Province’s energy sector in any manner.
This would necessitate establishing an Alberta Provincial Police Force to replace the RCMP, and passing into law the Alberta Independent Banking Act designed to expand significantly the number of provincially regulated financial institutions for the purpose of providing Alberta businesses and citizens with protection from enforcement of federal legislation or judicial decisions designated as unenforceable by the Alberta Legislature.
- Effectively ending federal equalization transfers from Alberta through passing into law the Equalization Termination and Tax Collection Act. In addition to establishing an Alberta Revenue Agency to collect all provincial taxes, this Act would also grant the Provincial Government authority to recover the total amount of equalization confiscated by the Federal Government from Alberta each year, by withholding from the CRA, an equal amount of federal tax source deductions that are collected by all provincial agencies, municipalities and, at their option, private corporations banking with provincially regulated financial institutions.
- Opting out of all federal programs that interfere with provincial areas of jurisdiction, including health, education, resource development, environmental regulation and property rights. This would include replacing the Canada Pension Plan (“CPP”) and Employment Insurance (“EI”) with an Alberta Pension Plan and Alberta Unemployment Insurance designed to deliver to Alberta pensioners and those who become unemployed higher benefits using lower premiums from Alberta workers.
- Declaring that the Provincial Government will replace the Federal Government as acting authority to negotiate Alberta’s international trade and market access relationships; and further, granting the Provincial Legislature authority to make all future judicial appointments in Alberta through passing into law, the Alberta Judicial Independence Act.
These proposed reforms constitute the key elements of a strategic plan for Alberta to assert its sovereignty, offload the burden of Ottawa’s tyrannical economic policies against the Province, and secure self-determination for the people of Alberta within a reformed confederation, or if necessary, as an independent nation.
We call this proposal, the ‘Free Alberta Strategy’.
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The following is actually the very least of what very much MUST be said about this because people are being mass brainwashed, essentially, because most follow the mainstream media, corporations and universities with their ‘woke’ to sleep twisted ‘ideological’ spells that control our society’s (now) collective ‘Borg’ like mind…
“Stop the Echo: Why Alberta Must Chart Its Own Course”
Friends,
Tonight I want to talk about two things that are hard to ignore and even harder to unhear.
First, a media echo chamber in this country that repeats Ottawa’s talking points until they sound like truth. Second, Alberta’s simple, stubborn reality: we carry more than our share, we’re lectured for it, and we’re blocked when we try to build.
Let’s call it what it is: a system that rewards agreement and punishes dissent. You can call it “the mainstream media,” you can call it “the Ottawa line,” but the effect is the same—an echo that drowns out Alberta’s voice.
1) Follow the incentives: why so many outlets sound the same
If you want to understand editorial courage, follow the money.
Ottawa funds a national broadcaster that receives about $1.309 billion in parliamentary appropriations in 2024–25—that’s just the annual operating transfer, before ad revenue and other income.
Since 2018, the federal government has layered on tax-credit regimes for news payrolls and digital subscriptions—a package publicly costed at $595 million over five years when introduced. Those programs are now embedded in the tax code (e.g., the Canadian Journalism Labour Tax Credit and “Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization” designations).
Under the Online News Act, the government negotiated a $100 million annual industry-wide deal with Google; CBC/Radio-Canada itself expects roughly $7 million a year from it. That’s the regulator-managed platform money now flowing to newsrooms.
Reasonable people can debate whether these measures were meant to “save journalism.” But we should also be honest about incentives: when Ottawa becomes a major revenue stream, fewer outlets are willing to bite the hand that feeds them. That doesn’t mean every story is false; it means the range of what gets questioned narrows. And when dissent does break through—especially from Alberta—it’s often framed as fringe or “misinformation,” rather than engaged on the merits.
2) Alberta’s ledger: the math that never makes the headline
Now, to the quiet numbers that rarely lead a national newscast.
Independent researchers have tallied Alberta’s net contribution to federal finances—that’s federal taxes paid here minus federal spending that comes back here. Over 2007–2022, Albertans paid $244.6 billion more than we received. That is by far the largest net contribution of any province.
Here’s the punchline the echo chamber skips: while Alberta is not an equalization recipient, our outsized net contributions help make equalization, EI, CPP, and other programs sustainable nationally. We’re told to be “more grateful,” when the country’s fiscal plumbing quietly runs on Alberta’s engine.
3) Ottawa’s policy hostility: rulings and results
When Albertans say Ottawa keeps overstepping, it isn’t a vibe—it’s been tested in court.
In October 2023, the Supreme Court of Canada held the federal Impact Assessment Act unconstitutional in part for intruding on provincial jurisdiction. Translation: Ottawa reached too far into areas the Constitution assigns to provinces—including Alberta’s resource projects.
And when Ottawa does green-light a project, it often does so after costs explode. Trans Mountain finally entered service on May 1, 2024—years late and costing roughly $34–53 billion, depending on the estimate used—leaving taxpayers with a Crown-owned pipeline and toll disputes still dragging on. This is not what competent nation-building looks like.
4) “Is independence even legal?” Yes—if it’s done the right way.
Opponents say, “You can’t do that.” Canada’s highest court says otherwise.
In Reference re Secession of Quebec (1998), the Supreme Court said a province cannot secede unilaterally, but a clear referendum majority on a clear question creates a constitutional duty for all parties to negotiate. Parliament later passed the Clarity Act (2000) to codify that process. That’s the lawful path: clarity, a democratic mandate, and negotiations over the terms.
That framework also recognizes complex issues—borders, debt, federal assets, Indigenous treaty rights and consent, and ongoing economic relations—that must be negotiated in good faith. But the key fact stands: a clear Alberta mandate compels talks. That’s not radicalism; that’s the rule of law.
5) “Is it financially possible?”—what the APP plan argues, and what to scrutinize
The Alberta Prosperity Project’s The Value of Freedom: A Draft Fully Costed Fiscal Plan for an Independent Alberta lays out a big-picture case that an independent Alberta could (a) retain far more of its tax base, (b) redesign programs to Alberta’s needs, and © leverage our energy, agriculture, and innovation advantages. The plan is listed among APP’s key resources and has been summarized in allied commentary. Treat it as a starting blueprint, not revealed scripture—then pressure-test each assumption.
There are two especially hot files where the math matters:
Pensions: Alberta’s 2023 analysis posited a very large asset transfer if we set up an Alberta Pension Plan. Critics—including pension experts—say that estimate relies on a favorable interpretation of the CPP Act and overstates Alberta’s entitlement. Bottom line: an APP may lower contribution rates if the asset share and demographics pencil out—but the transfer amount would be decided in negotiation (and likely litigation), not by Alberta alone. Don’t overpromise; insist on open actuarial hearings.
Trade & pipelines: Independence does not erase geography. Our prosperity still depends on moving molecules to market. That means sequencing any constitutional process with concrete export capacity, investor-credible fiscal rules, and continuity of market access under successor trade arrangements. (Note: even inside Confederation we’ve paid dearly for delays—see Trans Mountain.)
6) A practical roadmap Alberta can own
Here’s a responsible, lawful sequence that respects the Court, respects Albertans, and keeps our economic footing:
1. Legislate the question: Pass a provincial “clarity act” that defines a clear referendum question and what constitutes a clear majority (for example, a simple majority province-wide plus a regional floor), aligned to the 1998 Supreme Court reference.
2. Publish the numbers: Release an Alberta “Green Paper” that itemizes:
Net fiscal transfers (historical and projected).
Transition options for taxation, currency, debt share, and federal assets in Alberta.
Side-by-side pension scenarios (remain in CPP vs APP) using independent actuaries, with transparent sensitivity tests.
3. Two-track diplomacy: While preparing the referendum, start technical talks with Ottawa on continuity arrangements (trade, immigration, benefits payment systems) that would be needed in any case to reduce risk and uncertainty. This is consistent with the duty to negotiate if a clear mandate emerges.
4. The vote: Hold the referendum under Alberta’s election law with robust scrutineering and third-party audit. If a clear majority says yes, Alberta seeks negotiations under the Clarity Act framework.
5. Negotiations & ratification: Negotiate the package—borders, debt, assets, Indigenous treaties and consent, pensions, and transitional compacts—then return it to Albertans for a final ratification vote.
This is how grown-up countries do hard things: with law, with math, and with consent.
7) The media test: from parrots to watchdogs
And what do we ask of the press during this process? Simple:
Disclose who pays you—appropriations, tax credits, big-tech deals—on every federal-policy story.
Debate the numbers, not the people.
Interview Alberta economists as often as Ottawa pundits.
Correct quickly when facts change.
If the national press meets that standard, great. If not, Albertans will keep building our own media and our own megaphones. We won’t wait for permission to tell the truth as we live it.
Closing
Alberta has been generous to Canada. We’re proud of that. But generosity does not mean servitude, and unity is not the same as uniformity. If Ottawa continues to treat our prosperity as a problem to be managed, and our voice as noise to be filtered, then the constitutional path to sovereignty—clear, lawful, democratic—remains open to us.
We don’t fear the truth. We welcome it. And we’re ready to vote for it.
Thank you for your support in this mission as well.