Morton: Stars are aligning for a better deal for Alberta and all provinces via calgaryherald
Charest, the former premier of Quebec, publicly endorsed all the key elements of Alberta’s Fair Deal report: replacing the RCMP with a provincial police force; collecting our own taxes; controlling our own immigration; and most importantly, withdrawing from the Canada Pension Plan and forming our own Alberta Pension Plan. Quebec already does all of these programs, and there is no reason Alberta can’t too.
Back in the 1980-82 constitutional negotiations, Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed worked with Quebec Premier René Lévesque to protect provincial rights against policy intrusions from Ottawa. Together, they succeeded in achieving Section 92A to better protect provincial control of natural resource development against any future National Energy Programs.
And just this year, Quebec and all eight other provinces have joined Alberta’s constitutional challenge to C-69, Trudeau’s “no-new-pipelines” law. Alberta and Quebec are not the only provinces that have had enough of the Liberals trampling on the rights of Canadians to be governed by politicians that come from their own towns and neighbourhoods, rather than distant and unaccountable bureaucrats and judges in Ottawa.
That is why the founders chose a federal form of government rather than a unitary state. It worked arguably well until Pierre Trudeau arrived. Since then, the Liberals have thought that the national unity challenge can be resolved by more and more federal intrusions into policy areas that clearly belong to the provinces — health care, education, environment and now even daycare.
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