Should Alberta Leave Canada?: Power, Sovereignty, and the Future of Confederation

Should Alberta Leave Canada?For more than a century, the Prairie West has powered Canada's economy while wrestling with a persistent question: who truly governs the federation?In this deeply researched and analytically rigorous work, Elias Trent examines the structural foundations of Canada's political architecture - from the absorption of Rupert's Land and the Red River Resistance to modern equalization formulas, Senate imbalance, carbon pricing battles, and demographic divergence.This is not a book of slogans.It is a structural audit.Drawing on constitutional law, fiscal data, demographic trends, and comparative federal systems in the United States, Germany, and Australia, Power, Sovereignty, and the Future of Confederation asks difficult questions:¿ Were Alberta and Saskatchewan integrated as equal partners - or incorporated on unequal terms? ¿ Does the current structure of federal taxation and representation adequately reflect Prairie contribution and growth? ¿ Can meaningful decentralization occur within Confederation? ¿ What would independence actually cost - in debt, trade, currency, and geopolitical risk? ¿ Could U.S. statehood ever be viable? ¿ And how do treaty rights and Indigenous sovereignty reshape every version of this debate?Rather than offering romantic nationalism or reflex federalism, Trent models three pathways forward: structural reform, negotiated independence, or continental realignment. Each is evaluated through hard institutional analysis - not grievance rhetoric.At stake is more than Western alienation. The Prairie question exposes deeper tensions within a federation built in the nineteenth century and tested in the twenty-first: demographic imbalance, fiscal redistribution, energy transition, and constitutional rigidity.Canada stands at a crossroads.Whether it adapts - or fractures - will depend on whether its institutions can withstand honest scrutiny.This book invites that scrutiny.

Pagina's: 302, Paperback, Adultbrain Publishing