A Real Choice For Alberta's Future

What We Advocate For

The Alberta Freedom Foundation is an advocacy organization. We are not a neutral research body, and we don't pretend to be. We fund and publish opinion essays that make a sustained case for greater Alberta sovereignty — up to and including independence — and for giving Albertans a direct say, through a referendum, on the province's relationship with the rest of Canada.

That case rests on a handful of consistent threads that run through everything we publish:

• Equalization and fiscal fairness. Alberta has paid far more into Confederation than it has received back, year after year, with little say in how that money is spent.
• Resource and energy policy. Federal regulation has, in our view, treated Alberta's energy economy as a problem to manage rather than an asset to develop.
• Civil liberties and the Charter. Emergency powers and federal legislation on speech and information should be measured against the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, not waved past it in the name of expediency.
• Provincial capacity and consent. Decisions about immigration levels, housing, and infrastructure that land on Alberta communities should involve Alberta's own input and authority.

How We Work

We fund the development and publication of personal opinion essays — the kind of long-form, sourced argument that a newspaper op-ed page or a policy institute might publish. Each essay is written from the author's own point of view. We disclose our funding role on every page, and we say plainly that this is advocacy, not neutral analysis. You can read more about how we handle that disclosure on our Transparency & Disclosures page.

Why A Referendum

We don't ask people to agree with our conclusion. We ask for the right to put the question to a vote. Alberta has a long history of feeling like Confederation runs as a one-way relationship — full participation, with diminishing genuine voice. A referendum doesn't predetermine an outcome; it returns the decision to the people who live with its consequences. That is the basic principle behind everything on this site: Albertans should choose Alberta's future.

Prosperity With First Nations

Any vision for Alberta's future that we consider worth pursuing has to include a much stronger, equity-sharing partnership with First Nations communities — not as an afterthought, but as a precondition for the kind of prosperity we're arguing for. You'll see this commitment referenced directly in our sovereignty essay, and it applies across everything we publish.