This consolidated transition plan is founded on a series of 21 topic-specific working papers prepared with input from experts in their respective fields. Those working papers examine the principal legal, institutional, financial and operational issues that would arise in a transition from province to independent state, including constitutional process; courts and the legal system; regulatory frameworks; policing, corrections and public order; public finance and taxation; banking, currency and housing finance; public debt, assets and liabilities; pensions; citizenship and immigration; Indigenous peoples, treaty relations and Aboriginal rights; health and social programs; trade and economic relations; energy and natural resources; agriculture and food systems; transportation and communications infrastructure; and the sovereign functions associated with defence, borders, public administration, international relations, treaty succession and international trade.
The purpose of this Alberta Transition Plan is to bring that detailed work together in a single, accessible transition plan. It synthesizes and summarizes the principal findings, conclusions and recommendations from the underlying working papers, identifies the most important cross-cutting dependencies, and organizes the work into a common transition framework. The detailed working papers provide the supporting technical analysis; this plan is intended to give readers a practical overview of what would need to continue, what would need to change, what would require negotiation with Canada or other parties, and what new sovereign capabilities Alberta would need to establish.
Contributors
This plan reflects the work of 45 individuals who contributed research, drafting, technical analysis, professional review and comment.
For the public report, the Alberta Transition Council has chosen to identify only its two Co-Leads. All other contributors are treated as anonymous in order to respect professional, employment and personal considerations.
Keith Wilson, K.C., B.A. (Hons.), LL.B. Alberta lawyer; constitutional, regulatory and administrative law counsel; Co-Lead, Alberta Transition Council.
Dennis Kalma, B.Sc,. Technology and systems strategist; Co-Lead, Alberta Transition Council
The anonymous contributors include professionals and subject-matter experts from a range of disciplines relevant to the issues examined in this plan. Their participation should not be taken to mean that any individual contributor authored, approved or endorses every statement, conclusion or recommendation
The Alberta Transition Council is grateful to all contributors for the considerable time, expertise and care they devoted to this work. All participated voluntarily and without compensation.