Alberta 2035.

So Alberta wants to be “sovereign“, does it? It wants to wear the big boy pants, you say?

Yes it’s now got a nice little piece of paper with the $5 “sovereignty” word on it,i which is certainly a start and better than nothing, it still begs the question what would it actually take to move the needle towards greater independence and prosperity over the next decade.

We certainly have a sharp, strong, and capable Premier in Danielle Smith, but given that the last decade was marked by all manner of body shots from increased taxes through to globalist-driven COVID hysteria, mass immigration, and fentanyl sucker punches, it can really be no wonder that we’ve seen such a decline in confidence to go along with the institutional and infrastructural decay.

Whether or not Alberta ends up placing the 51st star next to the Waldo stripes of our southern neighbours – and there’s as much reason to believe that we’d be net-beneficiaries of such an arrangement as notii – herebelow is a rough outline of actionable steps needed to reconquista these lands no matter whether our direct superiors are in Ottawa or DC:

#0: Establish Provincial North Star

Before we even start with fixing the mess we’re in now, we need to establish a clear North Star for our mission going forward. What will be our Grand Projects? What is our Definite Future? What is the Good? What do we want to be when we grow up? Will we be leaders in geothermal, gas-power co-location for AI/DC, or lithium and rare earths? Whatever it is, it must be. Leadership (and life) require this clarity be defined in no uncertain terms. No kumbaya. Just clear goals. It’s that… or death.iii

#1: Fix Heritage Fund

While the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund (AHSTF) is invested by Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo), which only employs about 450 white-collar paper-pushers, these tards have also only achieved ~7% CAGR over the last 20 years, which is less than debasement of ~12%, which is another way of saying that the current $30 bn dollar fund could be $130 bn today if these mongaloids had gone all-in on dumb yellow rocks in a 24/7/365 guarded box, whether like Fort Knox or even just a managed third-party within the jurisdiction. So we’ve already pissed away $100 bn over the last 20 years, let’s do better for the next 20 eh? So I suggest 50% gold and 50% bitcoin. Nothing fancy, and it’ll beat the socks off whatever these microdick “managers” have been doing, or could possibly do in the future.

#2: Establish Peace-Conservation-Paramilitary Corp

Since university and professional programmes are increasingly female-coded and therefore increasingly undesirable to restless and ambitious young men, there’s an opportunity and perhaps even a necessity to provide them with a “safe space” in which to call each other “gay retards”iv (towards collectively productive ends, of course). Youth unemployment in the province is also nearly 20%, which is terrible, but thankfully there’s a time-tested solution! Not quite conscription, but a state-structured framework nevertheless for young men (and really mostly young men) to come together, find meaning, create long-lasting relationships, and develop useful life skills while adding value to their communities and to the province. The model? Peace / Conservation Corps. The young men will be paid a modest stipend, be given sharp-looking and easily-identifiable uniforms, and meet daily for one year to do drills, enhance physical fitness, learn discipline, develop hierarchy, sing patriotic songs, and unite for a common good. Actionable goals will be cell-driven rapid response to wildfires and natural disasters, while also building skills that will transfer well into trades apprenticeship programs and local law enforcement. In this Corps, young men will develop the martial virtue necessary to clean up streets, protect the aged and vulnerable, and ultimately create a spine for force-backed sovereignty, not just the hand-wavy piece-of-paper kind. This may or may not include a paramilitary branch – which may or may not be officially sanctioned – but would operate as a de facto core from which to eject the RCMP/federalis from the province and ultimately ensure the security of vital transportation systems for people, goods, and resources. With this foundation for law and order, we have a chance to avoid more lost decades of chaos.

#3: Expand Connectivity

Since the province is landlocked, all available avenues must be secured to expand rail services and pipelines to spread out our resource laneways between Asia and the rest of America. Post-Soviet Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan are the development models here. (I wonder why?!) Optionality is insurance.

#4: Education

In spite of the current public school teacher’s strike, there’s green shoots of hope for the system. Premier Smith is already strong creating “school choice” and voucher programmes, but we need more emphasis on attracting and retaining male teachers, more segregated schools for boys (not just girls as is currently the case), more classical education (including harsher disciplining of students), and more opportunities for Alpha School-style AI-driven programmes.

#5: Healthcare

“Free” creates bad incentives, as does the use of hospitals as long-term mental health clinics. The quality of care realistically needs to go down a lot for abusers of the system so that it can go up proportionately for real human beings.

#6: Special Economic Zones (SEZ)

Last and certainly not least is one of the most important frameworks for success anywhere in the world over the last 50 years. From China to India to former Soviet republics, Special Economic Zones (SEZ) are highly deregulated enclaves that seem to almost inevitably create dynamic ecosystems where entrepreneurs can flourish and innovation can thrive. Without nanny-state overreach to hold our best back, Alberta can massively boost provincial productivity and strength with this model. Using “shot clock” approvals of 45 days for all construction projects, eliminating zoning restrictions and scammy “environmental reviews” and thereby reducing barriers to entry for positive-sum endeavours, we can set free hugely energetic unlocks of human and financial capital. We might not have our own Elonv to steer the ship, but I think we’d be pleasantly surprised at what we’re capable of if we stopped tying our shoelaces together before the race starts.

So that’s 7 (humble) recommendations for the province. Let’s revisit this in a decade to see how close we can get. I’ll be doing what I can to move the needle in the meantime.

  1. aka “Alberta Sovereignty Act” of 2023, which has already been used to oppose Ottawa’s “Clean Electricity Regulations” as well as its oil-and-gas sector greenhouse-gas cap, not unlike what Quebec does whenever it damn well pleases, which is really the point. ↩
  2. Here’s a side-by-side analysis of “stay” vs. “leave” for Wexit:

    2045 verdicts by domain (Canada vs 51st-state with NWT corridor)

    1) Alaska connectivity (freight, troops, electrons, data)

    Winner: 51st-state with NWT.
    You can build a domestic Lower-48↔Alaska spine: rail/dual-carriage highway, HVDC (e.g., 1–3 GW Mackenzie-Valley line), and dual fiber. No international border crossings, so military logistics and compute backhaul get a structurally lower-risk route than today’s Yukon/BC path. The MVFL becomes your northbound fiber leg out of the box.

    2) AI/HPC siting at northern latitudes (cooling + firming)

    Edge: 51st-state with NWT.
    Cold ambient + Taltson hydro expansion + engine-or CCGT-backed “islandable” campuses create a string of north hubs with near-free cooling and black-start. Alberta-in-Canada can still win on power price near load centres, but state-wide control of Taltson + corridor tightens your reliability story for multi-GW rollup by 2045.

    3) Pacific tidewater for hydrocarbons

    Edge: Still better in Canada.
    Even with NWT, your Pacific outlet (TMX) remains in BC (Canada). As a U.S. state, TMX becomes a foreign line and port—higher chokepoint risk. You can pivot to Alaska ports (Valdez) overland, but new crude pipelines through the corridor + mountains are a generational lift; not bankable by 2045 at scale. Staying in Canada keeps TMX domestic.

    4) Critical-minerals integration (REEs, uranium, potash)

    Edge: 51st-state with NWT.
    You unify Nechalacho (NWT REE feed) with SRC rare-earth metals in Sask and U.S. magnet plants under a single federal regime. That simplifies permitting/offtake for DOD/Energy programs relative to a cross-border Canada–U.S. chain. (Diavik/Ekati wind-down is a headwind but frees skilled labour.)

    5) Resilience to climate volatility in the North

    Edge: Tie, with execution risk.
    Thaw/El Niño already disrupted winter ice-roads to mines; all-weather corridors + HVDC/fiber hardening are mandatory either way. A U.S. defense-led funding model could move faster; Canada’s northern programs are slower but steady.

    6) Interties & controllability (import headroom for compute)

    Slight edge: Canada to 2032; wash by 2045.
    Alberta-in-Canada can restore AB↔BC to ~950 MW and refurbish McNeill without internationalization. In the statehood case the Path-1 AC tie becomes international; you gain FERC tools for U.S. interstate builds but not for the BC interface. By 2045, both can deliver +1.5–2 GW firm imports; near-term is cleaner if you stay in Canada.

    7) Defense/industrial funding velocity

    Winner: 51st-state with NWT.
    IRA-class credits (45Q/45X/45Y/48E) + Pentagon/DOE corridors make the Mackenzie Valley Highway/HVDC/fiber a national-security program. That can compress schedules vs. Canada’s multi-jurisdiction northern process—if policy survives.

    8) Heritage-Fund-style sovereign savings

    Winner: Canada.
    The Alberta Heritage Fund’s statutory, diversified SIP&G is a low-variance path to C$60–80 B by 2045 with contributions. A U.S. state permanent fund is feasible, but you introduce fresh politics over payouts/asset mix. (And yes, a 50/50 gold/BTC tilt remains imprudent on volatility alone.)

    Edge to “leave” for sure, but maybe not as cut-and-dry as you were expecting? ↩

  3. For individuals as with states, goallessness === death!

    The alternative is more “net-zero” thinking which is to say mohammedanism and managed decline. ↩

  4. My good friend Philosopher of the Oilsands said it best [emphasis added]:

    The oil man is an unusual specimen. There is no man more hardworking and yet unscrupulous that you will find. His passions are undiluted and his love of oil is true. He makes great sums of money and spends the bulk of it on quads, sleds, and lifted trucks. He has virtues proper to him and his profession which are vices in most other segments of society. He pours forth prairie populism in every breath. He approaches any task set before him with the get-er-done gusto of a pack mule, but froths at the mouth in rage if his freedom is impinged upon. Indeed, it is his labour that powers the world and keeps the lights on—and he too often goes unnoticed or scorned despite his efforts.

    The men of the patch have no time for niceties. It is one of the last places where your foreman may call you a retarded faggot to your face without consequence, but where you can also say the same in return and keep your job. There is an intensity attendant with this dynamic. Contrasting the soft-spoken pretenses of the urbanite, I find the flagrant dialect of the oil man to be utterly invigorating.

    Urbanism feminises indeed… ↩

  5. Special Elon Zones might work in Texas, but could we get close to this in Alberta? Let’s find out?

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