As if there weren’t already enough reasons to pursue Alberta independence, Mark Carney just announced Canada’s involvement in the emerging “New World Order.”

The verdict is in, even though the signatures have hardly started.   Tens of thousands of Albertans are already lined up on snowy sidewalks in frigid temperatures to sign the referendum for independence.   If it wasn’t clear to Ottawa before, it had better be clear now. Alberta independence isn’t a small-fringe minority movement. Alberta independence is a train.   The movement started slowly. While most Albertans went about their working days, a few passionate patriots fed the furnace and...

I want to correct an all-too-common confusion about the CPP.   Whenever we introduce the prospect of an Alberta Pension Plan (APP) to the public, opponents of the idea often reply that “CPP investments earn an incredible 10% rate of return!”* The insinuation, of course, is that no one with an ounce of economic sanity would want to leave the pension plan. Why would we want to do so when the CPP is earning 10% returns on its investments?   The answer is that while the pension might be earning...