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?