Alberta Fact Check: Alberta professor concludes that provincial independence would involve hard work. No one said it wouldn't.

Subhead:The path to independence for Alberta would not be easy, but there aren’t any insurmountable barriers to overcome either.# University of Alberta law professor Gerard Kennedy told Global News it would be extremely complicated to start a new country. This is in response to absolutely nobody claiming the process would be a simple one. Many contemporary blueprints are available for the formation of a new, sovereign state. In fact, over 70 new countries have been created around the world just since 1966. The process for all of those new countries to gain independence wasn’t simple either. Many of them didn’t have guiding documents such as the Clarity Act to chart the pathway for them. Yet they managed. “There would have to be a negotiation between Canada and Alberta, to negotiate the terms of departure and issues like that would have be considered,” Kennedy said. There is currently ongoing negotiation between Canada and Alberta just to get a pipeline approved. The province is getting plenty of practice in dealing with intransigent political leaders in Ottawa already. In the event of Alberta’s garnering independence, Kennedy notes, “That ability to facilitate will be gone. Now, the independent Alberta would have to negotiate with the province of British Columbia, and the federal government in a separate country. That would be how that would work.” Amazon-embed:B0GXDXZ6LX

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