Fair Deal Panel

The panel hearing feedback on whether Alberta should quit the Canada Pension Plan heard multiple callers tell them on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023, it’s time to embrace a “no-brainer” provincial program.

Of all the ideas Alberta has attempted to export to the rest of the country, there might not be a worse one than holding one-off elections for an unelected Senate, writes columnist Max Fawcett. 

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he will call a referendum on pushing Ottawa for a better deal on equalization payments as well as explore the province cutting ties with the RCMP and leaving the Canada Pension Plan.

Thursday the United Conservative majority in the Alberta legislature passed a bill which, among other things, fires the election commissioner who was investigating the party's 2017 leadership race. But an onslaught of changes and announcements nearly guarantees that the incident won't stay in the public's eye for long.

This weekend Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announced the creation of the Fair Deal Panel — a panel tasked with creating “Alberta’s strategy to secure a fair deal in the federation.”

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announced the creation of a panel that will examine ways to make his province more independent of Ottawa in a speech to the conservative Manning Centre on Saturday, November 9, 2019, in which he rejected separatist arguments.