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Meanwhile politicians celebrate population growth, record housing targets, and labour shortages.
The reality is working Canadians are being priced out of their own country.
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Dear Albertans,
For decades, Ottawa has treated your province not as an equal partner in Confederation, but as a subordinate and an ATM. The unfair equalization formula has taken your wealth for 61 years. You’ve sent billions of dollars and have never received a single penny back.
In October 2021, 62% of you voted in a referendum to stop this wealth drain. And nobody is listening to you. Certainly not the Liberals. And not the Conservatives who take your vote for granted while doing nothing for you.
You’re right to be enraged. Ottawa blocks your pipelines, strangles your energy sector, kills your jobs, and then demands your money. They want your wealth but deny you the means to earn more.
I share your frustration.
Now you have a chance to be heard. On October 19, you will answer a critical question:
“Should Alberta remain a province of Canada or should the Government of Alberta commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada?”
You have two options: Should Alberta REMAIN a province, or COMMENCE the legal process to hold a binding referendum on separation?
The “Remain” option changes nothing. That’s the status quo. Alberta remains a colony of Ottawa’s imperial federalism.
That means allowing the federal government to continue interfering into provincial affairs with its unconstitutional laws, regulations and spending programs on sectors such as healthcare, natural resources development, education, and others.
That means pipelines being held hostage to costly carbon capture schemes, industrial carbon taxes killing your competitiveness, no equalization reform and zero control over immigration.
The “Commence the legal process” option is the only way to a strong Alberta. Voting to start the legal process for a secession referendum launches genuine negotiations for greater autonomy for Alberta. It puts a knife to the throat of Ottawa’s establishment. It gives you bargaining power.
Poilievre’s fake Conservatives and Carney’s Liberals will work together and promise you autonomy, just like they promised Quebec at the last referendum.
The result was the opposite, even with a very close 49/51% vote. More centralization and more trampling of provincial jurisdictions, including another bunch of unconstitutional federal programs created by Justin Trudeau in recent years: national daycare, pharmacare, dental care.
Don’t believe them.
History shows Ottawa only listens when faced with a credible democratic threat to its authority.
The federalist camp will lie and say a “Commence” vote means separation, and also untold catastrophes and the end of the world as we know it. That's not the case.
It’s a vote to start negotiations that could of course lead to separation, but not necessarily. It’s also a vote for an end to federal imperialism. A vote for autonomy, for fairness, for respect.
As in Quebec, that’s very likely what the large majority of voters want in Alberta, and that’s what would be by far the best outcome for everyone.
And to genuine Alberta separatists who want a more radical break anyway, I say: be patient. That debate comes later, after a strong “Commence” vote and possibly failed negotiations.
The People’s Party of Canada stands with all of you who are fed up with the status quo and want a radical change, whether it’s radical decentralization – as my party has been proposing for years – or outright separation.
We support the “Commence” option. We believe in a united Canada, but unity cannot be forced through coercion and constitutional overreach. True unity requires respect for our Constitution.
This is your moment Albertans. The time for decisive action is now.
But, let's be clear: Ottawa doesn’t listen to polite demands. It doesn’t listen to reason. It only listens to power.
Use your power. Vote to COMMENCE this legal process. Vote for a new beginning for you and the country.
LETTER FROM MEMBER OF A FIRST NATION TO MEMBERS OF THE FIRST NATION IN ALBERTA.
" The chief and council you vote for was not built by your ancestors. It was built by the Crown to manage you.
That is the origin of the system. Not self-determination. Administration.
And Ottawa still decides who is allowed inside. The federal government determines who is a status Indian and who is not, registration, the second-generation cut-off, the decades of sex discrimination that took Bill C-31, then Bill C-3, then Bill S-3 to half-fix and still hasn’t fixed.
Think about what that means. The government that built the band council also keeps the list of who counts as one of us. They define the membership and they define the office that membership votes for.
We did not draw either line. They did. And then we are told the path to sovereignty runs through the very machinery they designed to deny it.
So let’s look at the results, because results are the only honest measure. As of mid-2026 there are still thirty-eight long-term drinking water advisories in thirty-six First Nations communities.
Neskantaga has been boiling its water since 1995, a child born there has now grown up, had children of their own, and never once drunk safely from the tap in their home community.
Ottawa promised to end all of it by 2021. The deadline came and went. The water legislation, Bill C-61, got delayed again. One hundred and fifty-six advisories have been lifted since 2015 and we are still here, holding a cup of water up to the light and wondering. Ukraine got their money though........
For thirty years the water ran foul and no one called an emergency assembly. The children kept getting apprehended and no one filed an injunction.
But the moment Alberta let its citizens circulate a petition, not to leave Confederation, not even to hold the referendum, just to ask whether the question of leaving could one day be put to a vote, the chiefs found their fight.
Sturgeon Lake Cree, Athabasca Chipewyan, the Blackfoot Confederacy, Onion Lake, straight into the Court of King’s Bench to kill the petition on duty-to-consult grounds, treaty rallies on the legislature steps, the whole apparatus mobilized at speed to stop the question before it could ever reach a ballot.
Sit with the absurdity of it. They did not kill a separation. They killed a question about whether to ask a question, the most preliminary, least binding step in the entire process, strangled in the cradle.
And the thing they raced to bury was the best leverage our people have been handed in a century.
When the Mohawks stood at Oka they stood for land, for the dead in their own burial ground, for their own people, their own honour. That is what resistance is for.
The Alberta chiefs lined up to block a vote.
They blocked democracy in the province the same way they have blocked it on their own reserves for three generations, where the same one or two surnames have held the council table for seventy-five years and called it tradition.
A captured office defending a captured future, and calling the defense sovereignty.
So no.
I will not risk my liberty for that. I am not waiting for the band office to save me, I stopped a long time ago.
The Crown built the cage in 1876, but the people guarding the door now look like us, and they have decided the cage is comfortable enough to keep. One hundred and fifty years is enough evidence.
Sovereignty was never going to come from the men who throw away the one real chance at renegotiation because the old arrangement keeps them in their chairs, with full pockets.
The cage was built in Ottawa, but the door is held from the inside now, and I am done asking the men in the doorway to move."
Darren Grimes
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🚨🇨🇦 When a government has to send grocery rebates so people can afford food, that's not compassion.
It's an admission that something has gone terribly wrong.
A healthy economy doesn't need rebate cheques to help families buy groceries.
It needs affordable food in the first place. 🇨🇦
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