There is some irony in the Group of Seven holding their annual summit this week in Alberta, while the province prepares for a 2026 referendum on whether to separate from Canada.  A May 2025 Leger poll found that nearly half of Albertans support independence.

Alberta is Canada’s energy capital, but its ambitions to utilize its resources – the world’s fourth-largest deposits of crude oil – have been consistently thwarted by environmentalists and elitist opinion. Alberta wants a new port and pipeline infrastructure, as well as the scrapping of mandates on clean electricity and net-zero emission cars.

Canada’s National Post says the current Constitution “is explicitly rigged to diminish Alberta’s electoral and senatorial power…Our heavy funding of the rest of Confederation seems to earn us nothing but contempt from central Canada.”

How would Texans feel if Washington ruled no more drilling in the Permian Basin?

The goal should be to make North America the energy capital of the world.  Canada needs a Trump-like leader to declare “drill baby drill.”

While newly-elected Prime Minister Mark Carney hobnobs with world leaders at the G-7, he’d do well to remember his Liberal Party won only two of Alberta’s 37 parliamentary seats in April’s national election. He may soon be facing the same kind of regional anger that prompted French-speaking Quebec to hold two hotly contested referenda on independence in past decades.