Refer Alberta Justice Statutes
Petitioners ask Parliament to invoke Section 53 to refer Alberta’s Justice Statutes Amendment Act, 2025 to the SCC and to ask the Foreign Influence Transparency Commissioner to investigate meetings with the Trump administration.
Why we would sign this petition
- It secures a Supreme Court review of Alberta’s Justice Statutes Amendment Act, resolving uncertainty about its constitutionality and preserving consistent federal constitutional interpretation.
- An investigation by the Foreign Influence Transparency Commissioner would clarify whether meetings with the Trump administration involved reportable foreign influence and improve transparency.
- Parliamentary referral under Section 53 exercises an available legal mechanism to address urgent constitutional and national-interest concerns raised by the petition.
Why we wouldn’t sign this petition
- The referral could politicize the Court’s docket and extend legal uncertainty while other legal challenges proceed through provincial and judicial channels.
- Investigations may duplicate existing oversight or lack clear jurisdiction, delaying substantive scrutiny of alleged foreign interactions.
- Parliamentary resources and attention might be better used on direct measures addressing foreign interference or provincial governance, rather than urgent SCC referral.
The summary and both sets of reasons are AI-generated from the petition and given equal weight. Claims are the petitioners’ own; consult the official record for the full text.
Official petition
Petition to the House of Commons in Parliament assembled The Alberta Prosperity Project, driving the current independence petition, has held three documented meetings with senior Trump administration officials and solicited a $500 billion US credit facility to fund a potential independent Alberta; The Trump administration’s documented pattern of resource-driven coercion — in Venezuela, Greenland, and Panama — is now credibly directed at Alberta, which holds the world’s third-largest proven oil reserves; Co-founder Dennis Modry, participant in the Washington meetings, was found by a BC Supreme Court judge to have misappropriated $1.3 million from elderly relatives; Canada’s Foreign Influence Transparency Commissioner has confirmed foreign interference in Canadian political processes is already occurring and that the Washington meetings may fall within his mandate; and The Alberta government legislated around a court ruling declaring the original petition unconstitutional — conduct the presiding judge described as “disrespectful to the administration of justice.” We, the undersigned, People of Canada, call upon the House of Commons in Parliament assembled to invoke its authority under Section 53 of the Supreme Court Act to refer the constitutionality of Alberta’s Justice Statutes Amendment Act, 2025 to the Supreme Court of Canada, and to direct the Foreign Influence Transparency Commissioner to immediately investigate the meetings between the Alberta Prosperity Project and the Trump administration.
Government response
No government response is available yet.