{"product_id":"book-1jvy","title":"Should Alberta Leave Canada?","description":"Should Alberta Leave Canada?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than a century, the Prairie West has powered Canada's economy while wrestling with a persistent question: who truly governs the federation?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this deeply researched and analytically rigorous work, Elias Trent examines the structural foundations of Canada's political architecture - from the absorption of Rupert's Land and the Red River Resistance to modern equalization formulas, Senate imbalance, carbon pricing battles, and demographic divergence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is not a book of slogans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a structural audit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on constitutional law, fiscal data, demographic trends, and comparative federal systems in the United States, Germany, and Australia, Power, Sovereignty, and the Future of Confederation asks difficult questions:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Were Alberta and Saskatchewan integrated as equal partners - or incorporated on unequal terms?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Does the current structure of federal taxation and representation adequately reflect Prairie contribution and growth?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Can meaningful decentralization occur within Confederation?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- What would independence actually cost - in debt, trade, currency, and geopolitical risk?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Could U.S. statehood ever be viable?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- And how do treaty rights and Indigenous sovereignty reshape every version of this debate?","brand":"Author's Republic","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":66564339106096,"sku":"BD1jvy","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/1jvy-Square-cover.jpg?v=1776587603","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-1jvy","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}