Sep 21, 2026 · 43 min · 10 segments
The 7/50 podcast is a brand new series produced by the Centre for Constitutional Studies, a hub for Canadian constitutional research and public education at the University of Alberta. This first ever…
Richard MaleyHostI usually don't, especially when it's in the mail, knowing the post I could buy before it shows up.
So everything that we've been talking about, we just touched on the now increasing use of the notwithstanding clause, we're facing a constitutional referendum in October in Alberta, maybe a secession referendum at some point.
What do all of these things tell us about the current state of our federation?
I think I read an environic study that's not out yet that actually shows that despite everything that you hear, Western alienation is actually down in Alberta.
And Quebec, since I live there, I can safely report that this is not 1990 or 1995.
I think the biggest risk from So I'll start with Quebec because it's always safer when in Alberta
stick to your own knitting, but I will get to Alberta because I love risks and I'm far away.
The biggest risk to electing a Parts Québécois government is not necessarily that we would have a referendum.
And at that point, the referendum is mostly a risk to sovereigntists in the sense that at this point, it's about 65.
But as in Alberta, as a result of what has happened, for instance, in court and with the indigenous nations that did go to court to challenge Alberta, the risk is that those years or months between the time that we set a referendum in motion and the point where it happens or its aftermath, is that it poisons the well of relationships between First Nations and governments in the provinces at the time when to get a lot of those projects that every province has.
Here today, the talk is about Gull Island and Churchill Falls and Newfoundland and Labrador.
I usually don't, especially when it's in the mail, knowing the post I could buy before it shows up.
So everything that we've been talking about, we just touched on the now increasing use of the notwithstanding clause, we're facing a constitutional referendum in October in Alberta, maybe a secession referendum at some point.
What do all of these things tell us about the current state of our federation?
I think I read an environic study that's not out yet that actually shows that despite everything that you hear, Western alienation is actually down in Alberta.
And Quebec, since I live there, I can safely report that this is not 1990 or 1995.
I think the biggest risk from So I'll start with Quebec because it's always safer when in Alberta
stick to your own knitting, but I will get to Alberta because I love risks and I'm far away.
The biggest risk to electing a Parts Québécois government is not necessarily that we would have a referendum.
And at that point, the referendum is mostly a risk to sovereigntists in the sense that at this point, it's about 65.
But as in Alberta, as a result of what has happened, for instance, in court and with the indigenous nations that did go to court to challenge Alberta, the risk is that those years or months between the time that we set a referendum in motion and the point where it happens or its aftermath, is that it poisons the well of relationships between First Nations and governments in the provinces at the time when to get a lot of those projects that every province has.
Here today, the talk is about Gull Island and Churchill Falls and Newfoundland and Labrador.
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