{"id":32292,"date":"2025-03-17T08:26:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T14:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/?p=32292"},"modified":"2025-03-17T08:26:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T14:26:37","slug":"the-politics-of-the-alberta-sovereignty-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/en\/the-politics-of-the-alberta-sovereignty-act\/","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of the Alberta Sovereignty Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>If law, including constitutional law, is downstream from politics, what are the implications for federalism in Canada? Barry Cooper, Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary, joins Runnymede Radio to discuss the Free Alberta Strategy and its cornerstone, the Alberta Sovereignty Act, including the notion that this Act was drawn up as &#8220;unconstitutional on purpose&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>For further reading, take a look at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehub.ca\/2025\/02\/20\/geoffrey-sigalet-and-jesse-hartery-the-critics-were-wrong-about-danielle-smiths-alberta-sovereignty-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/thehub.ca\/2025\/02\/20\/geoffrey-sigalet-and-jesse-hartery-the-critics-were-wrong-about-danielle-smiths-alberta-sovereignty-act\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1742077391442000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1kz37S7Mcm727iwasxb78E\">&#8220;Geoffrey Sigalet and Jesse Hartery: The critics were wrong about Danielle Smith\u2019s Alberta Sovereignty Act.&#8221;<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"powerpress_player_4888\" class=\"powerpress_player\"><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2190\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-32292-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/runnymederadio\/content.blubrry.com\/runnymederadio\/Cooper_The_Free_Alberta_Strategy.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/runnymederadio\/content.blubrry.com\/runnymederadio\/Cooper_The_Free_Alberta_Strategy.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/runnymederadio\/content.blubrry.com\/runnymederadio\/Cooper_The_Free_Alberta_Strategy.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/runnymederadio\/content.blubrry.com\/runnymederadio\/Cooper_The_Free_Alberta_Strategy.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/en\/?powerpress_pinw=32292-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/runnymederadio\/content.blubrry.com\/runnymederadio\/Cooper_The_Free_Alberta_Strategy.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Cooper_The_Free_Alberta_Strategy.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 48:17 &#8212; 20.5MB) | <a href=\"#\" class=\"powerpress_link_e\" title=\"Embed\" onclick=\"return powerpress_show_embed('32292-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_embed_box\" id=\"powerpress_embed_32292-podcast\" style=\"display: none;\"><input id=\"powerpress_embed_32292-podcast_t\" type=\"text\" value=\"&lt;iframe width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;30&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/en\/?powerpress_embed=32292-podcast&amp;amp;powerpress_player=mediaelement-audio&quot; title=&quot;Blubrry Podcast Player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot;&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\" onclick=\"javascript: this.select();\" onfocus=\"javascript: this.select();\" style=\"width: 70%;\" readOnly><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribebyemail.com\/runnymedesociety.ca\/en\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe by Email\" rel=\"nofollow\">Email<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/en\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If law, including constitutional law, is downstream from politics, what are the implications for federalism in Canada? Barry Cooper, Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary, joins Runnymede Radio to discuss the Free Alberta Strategy and its cornerstone, the Alberta Sovereignty Act, including the notion that this Act was drawn up as &#8220;unconstitutional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jet_sm_ready_style":"","_jet_sm_style":"","_jet_sm_controls_values":"","_jet_sm_fonts_collection":"","_jet_sm_fonts_links":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-runnymede-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runnymedesociety.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}