So last month I promised some ideas for making Alberta stronger and more realistically independent without going down the separation path. Here are three big ones…





1. We need a federal Alberta Party

All this focus and false-hope pinned on a provincial government lead by a status-quo politician like Jason Kenney is futile. Alberta doesn’t need a Parti Québécois, what we need is a Bloc Québécois.

For those young ones out there, the Bloc was formed in the early 90’s when Quebec became fully disillusioned with Canada after the failure of the Meech Lake Accords. For more info check this link for the history. They put together a Quebec-based party to represent Quebec interests in the House of Commons. In their first contested election in 1993, they won 54 seats…and became official opposition!

The Bloc has been reviled throughout Canada, but Albertans need to really look at the success of having a self-interested party like the Bloc representing our interests in Ottawa.

Alberta almost uniformly votes Conservative in federal elections. This has allowed Alberta to be taken for granted by the Conservative party. When the Conservatives are out of power, they court Alberta for donations and with a message of “Get Rid of Those Pesky Liberals!” and when they’re in power they ignore Alberta and claim they are trying to create a more national base by pandering to Ontario and Quebec. Meanwhile, Alberta gets nothing.