{"product_id":"should-alberta-leave-canada-power-sovereignty-and-the-future-of-confederation-9781997976356","title":"Should Alberta Leave Canada?: Power, Sovereignty, and the Future of Confederation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShould Alberta Leave Canada?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than a century, the Prairie West has powered Canada's economy while wrestling with a persistent question: who truly governs the federation?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a book of slogans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a structural audit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on constitutional law, fiscal data, demographic trends, and comparative federal systems in the United States, Germany, and Australia, \u003cem\u003ePower, Sovereignty, and the Future of Confederation\u003c\/em\u003e asks difficult questions: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Were Alberta and Saskatchewan integrated as equal partners - or incorporated on unequal terms?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - Does the current structure of federal taxation and representation adequately reflect Prairie contribution and growth?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - Can meaningful decentralization occur within Confederation?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - What would independence actually cost - in debt, trade, currency, and geopolitical risk?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - Could U.S. statehood ever be viable?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - And how do treaty rights and Indigenous sovereignty reshape every version of this debate?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than offering romantic nationalism or reflex federalism, Trent models three pathways forward: structural reform, negotiated independence, or continental realignment. Each is evaluated through hard institutional analysis - not grievance rhetoric.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt stake is more than Western alienation. The Prairie question exposes deeper tensions within a federation built in the nineteenth century and tested in the twenty-first: demographic imbalance, fiscal redistribution, energy transition, and constitutional rigidity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCanada stands at a crossroads.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether it adapts - or fractures - will depend on whether its institutions can withstand honest scrutiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book invites that scrutiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Adultbrain Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781997976356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Elias Trent","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52403629424821,"sku":"9781997976356","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_ced7daaf-b059-4aad-901f-1469c8edbad3.jpg?v=1774970026","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/should-alberta-leave-canada-power-sovereignty-and-the-future-of-confederation-9781997976356","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}