This is part of the Free Alberta Strategy, penned in 2021 by Smith’s right-hand man Rob Anderson, UofC political science prof and climate change denialist Barry Cooper, and someone called David From. The Sovereignty Act is also in there. Smith has clearly been trying to implement the strategy from day one. For those who are curious, freealbertastrategy.com .
The consequences for those who think they are protected are clear: they will be charged starting in October of 2026 (so much for “law-abiding gun owners”), and the RCMP is not in a bind. They will simply do their job. Smith is bringing this up now because her government is crumbling and she needs the crazy fan base more than ever.
I think the program is poorly ran and in itself probably isn’t conducive to anything significant for Canadians.
But letting Alberta get away with this type of jurisdictional overreach is going to end poorly.
This motion, if passed, could put RCMP officers serving in Alberta in a bind, because they fall under federal jurisdiction. Amery said it’s up to that agency to choose whether they follow Ottawa’s directive.
Like the long gun registry, it’s a shitshow. In a few years we’ll find out it got hacked three times for PII and cost 10X as much as they said. And will be about as useful as the Police Chiefs Association thinks it will be, which is not at all.
“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary”
