Western Standard - Canada changed from having the British system

00:00:00.000 Alberta, as a colony of a colony, relied on evolution to gain full democracy.

00:00:05.360 Resource transfers in 1929 and the cancellation of detrimental freight rates in the 1980s were advances.

00:00:12.120 When Britain's Westminster Act of 1931 cut Canada loose as a colony,

00:00:17.600 it generally centralized power to the Prime Minister,

00:00:20.360 mimicking the regal powers of the U.S. presidency, but without any checks and balances.

00:00:25.100 All evolution stopped abruptly in 1982 with Trudeau's creation of the Constitution.

00:00:30.600 Canada switched from a parliamentary system to an American republican system.

00:00:34.760 Sovereignty was taken from the individuals and given to the state.

00:00:38.640 Even though the facade of parliamentary systems continued, all the aspects of the American republicism followed.

00:00:45.060 Judicial supremacy, structural intransigence, bureaucratic nationalism, and most obvious of all, adversarial politics.

00:00:52.180 Western alienation became entrenched and in fact amplified. Trudeau not only redefined Canada to

00:00:58.780 his vision, he struck a sword into the aspirations of the West to become a full and equal democratic

00:01:04.880 party.

Western Standard - August 09, 2026