An independent Alberta must have a constitution
VIDEO: Cory Morgan
Queen’s University law professor, Bruce Pardy, offers a blueprint for a new Alberta constitution that represents not just a political reset but a philosophical revolution: transforming Alberta into a beacon of liberty, where government serves as a restrained guardian, not an overbearing ruler.
Exploring Prof. Pardy’s newly released proposed constitution for an independent Alberta, Cory Morgan—Alberta independence politician, activist and columnist for the Western Standard—breaks down the professor’s radical vision of governance that prioritizes individual rights over a dramatically limited state authority.
Key principles, notes Morgan, include prohibiting force (by citizens against citizens and the state against its citizens) with the exception of self-defense, abolishing bureaucratic overreach through term limits for all public servants (including military and police), and dismantling the “deep state” by capping salaries at median wages and eliminating pensions.
Morgan goes through each of Prof. Pardy’s 13 provisions from balancing population-based representation with regional equity—to prevent urban centers like Calgary and Edmonton from overshadowing rural interests; property rights, land distribution, and citizenship, as well as Prof. Pardy’s recommendation for a constrained judiciary to curb activist rulings.
Of the various proposals he has reviewed for a new Alberta constitution, Morgan praises Prof. Pardy’s “architecture for a free country” as a “fantastic” framework that challenges Albertans to move beyond struggling to resolve the flaws of an inherited system (such as Westminster), to envision a radically different structure that elevates liberty over legacy and innovation over inertia.
Bruce Pardy is the executive director of Rights Probe and a professor of law at Queen’s University.
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