Alberta to launch panel tour to 'chart a path forward' amid new pipeline talk [secession]

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Alberta to launch panel tour to 'chart a path forward' amid new pipeline talk

CBC News
by Joel Dryden
Jun 24, 2025

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says a new panel will hit the road this summer with an eye on devising new measures for Alberta to assert autonomy and shield its economy from what she calls federal overreach.

The "Alberta Next" panel, which was announced in May, will hold a series of in-person town halls over the summer, with exact locations to be announced in the coming weeks. It will also collect feedback through online surveys.

Proposals that come out of those discussions could be put to a vote in a referendum next year.

"The Alberta Next panel will put Albertans in the drivers' seat," Smith told reporters at a news conference in Heritage Park in Calgary on Tuesday. "It will give them the rightful opportunity to decide how Alberta can become stronger and more sovereign within a united Canada."

Smith previously said she would chair the panel. In addition to Smith, the panel will include Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz, economist Trevor Tombe, and Adam Legge of the Business Council of Alberta, among others, with some still to be announced.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-next-premier-danielle-smith-adam-legge-1.7569417

[MeganC]

Alberta. Our 51st State!! 

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WaHoo! Lot's of good fishing up there ...

[roamer_1]

Tolja so... Interior BC and Alberta are jumping hot.

Saskatchewan will follow.

What would be interesting is if the Yukon and NWT bolt... Because that would/could connect AK to the lower 48.

[Smokin Joe]

Tolja so... Interior BC and Alberta are jumping hot.

Saskatchewan will follow.

What would be interesting is if the Yukon and NWT bolt... Because that would/could connect AK to the lower 48.