The Critical Compass Podcast - September 13, 2025


Crafting a BETTER Constitution for an Independent Alberta with Dr. Dennis Modry

Topics
checks and balances
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5 minutes

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143.65

Word count

781

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43


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In this episode, I speak with Alberta s Chief Justice Minister, Shep Miller, about the proposed constitution for a Sovereign Alberta. We discuss the process of coming up with an interim constitution, what it means to be a sovereign Alberta, and what it would look like in a real constitution.

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00:00:00.000 As a sovereign Alberta, you know, we are working on a constitution that brings into line individual
00:00:09.140 freedoms and rights. Interim constitution that we're proposing is based on the U.S. constitution,
00:00:16.140 but there's a number of amendments to the U.S. constitution, so that means, you know,
00:00:20.400 they had to fix some things along the way. What we're proposing is a constitution that's based,
00:00:25.520 loosely based on the U.S. constitution, but it has even more checks and balances,
00:00:28.860 and it has more public input through sort of along the Swiss line where certain things that the
00:00:37.500 government can't do, for example, is to impose something that the public might not want and in
00:00:45.680 order to discern whether the public wants it, you have to hold a referendum on it. And so that's
00:00:52.440 one way to deal with these sorts of things. And so I think you'll be really excited to see
00:00:58.080 what we're proposing in the new constitution, which is, like I say, it's been run through
00:01:04.100 constitutional lawyers and business people and professionals, et cetera, et cetera. And it hasn't
00:01:08.760 been released yet because we're still tweaking it, but we expect that it'll be released by the end of
00:01:13.580 September. And this would be the basis for a full constitutional conference that would take place
00:01:20.640 after Alberta declares its sovereignty, immediately following a successful referendum.
00:01:26.080 Yeah. So a lot of those that are skeptical of independence on the left, more pragmatic in the
00:01:32.860 sense of like, well, they don't trust the UCP. If they are worried about a government overstepping
00:01:38.260 their bounds and reaching into people's lives and acting in a way that is corrupt, then technically
00:01:45.760 wouldn't they want more checks and balances. Exactly. Like a limited government is limited
00:01:52.080 in its ability to become corrupt or into to interfere with people's lives. So this is a unique
00:01:59.860 opportunity to weave in a better foundation through like through a robust constitution.
00:02:08.400 Well, exactly. You know, and here's just one example from the constitution, the proposed constitution.
00:02:14.300 You have a, you have the people above a constitution and then you have the various branches, but we have
00:02:20.660 a new branch and which is above all of them. And that is a branch that oversees the executive branch,
00:02:28.800 the judiciary, the Senate, and its sole mandate is to ensure that each branch of government does not
00:02:37.540 deviate at all from the constitution. Okay. So there can't be anything. And that's its sole
00:02:44.260 responsibility. And there are four arms that look at that, that oversee those four branches of
00:02:50.860 government. Then on top of that, from an economic point of view, what we're proposing as well is that
00:02:58.700 each department that operates, whether it's be education or healthcare or military, every three months,
00:03:06.000 there's an audit released to the public. So when you are audited every three months,
00:03:11.980 you have very little opportunity to divest funds, uh, in a way in which they shouldn't be divested.
00:03:21.020 You see what I'm saying? So checks and balances, right? And then for any new spending bills or
00:03:29.840 something that may be substantive, you'd have to have a referendum on that or, or a plebiscite
00:03:35.560 either, or referendums are binding. Plebiscites are not necessarily binding. So referendum would be
00:03:41.180 preferable. So you, you see what I'm saying here is that for the individual who's concerned about
00:03:50.580 corruption and government, what we've attempted to do is virtually eliminate it, um, in this fashion.
00:03:58.960 And I think it's, uh, it, it, it, it should be, it should be picked up by, um, and supported,
00:04:06.560 you know, by the Alberta electorate, you know, from the constitutional conference. Now it doesn't
00:04:11.920 mean to say, you know, once we, once we, um, release the interim constitution, uh, for the
00:04:18.820 public, just like the value of freedom document open for public discussion. So we expect they're
00:04:24.200 going to be, you know, constitutional lawyers on one, on one side of the equation, on constitutional
00:04:29.860 lawyers on the other side of the equation, you know, um, arguing about, you know, various points and,
00:04:35.920 and we're going to, you know, it's just the way it is, you know, and, but this is what we want. We
00:04:40.720 want public discussion. And we're not saying that everything is going to be absolutely perfect. We're
00:04:46.320 just like the value of freedom document has been open for public discussion. We're making some tweaks
00:04:50.760 to that before its second version is released. So by the same token, the same thing will happen with
00:04:57.020 our proposed interim constitution. And these, these sorts of things will help the public understand
00:05:03.520 what the potential is for a sovereign, uh, country.
00:05:07.720 So.
00:05:22.120 you
00:05:24.160 you