EDMONTON, AB, Sept. 3, 2026 /CNW/ -- The Alberta Transition Council (ATC) today released the Alberta Transition Plan, a comprehensive 29-chapter roadmap examining how Alberta could make a lawful and workable transition from province to independent country if Albertans ultimately choose that path.

The ATC is a volunteer, multidisciplinary research initiative co-led by Alberta lawyer Keith Wilson, K.C., and technology and systems strategist Dennis Kalma. The Plan reflects the work of 45 Albertans who contributed research, drafting, technical analysis, and professional review, including work on 21 topic-specific White Papers.

The Plan examines the major legal, financial, institutional and operational requirements of a transition, including constitutional implementation, courts, policing, taxation, banking, currency, pensions, citizenship, immigration, Indigenous and treaty relations, health care, social programs, energy, agriculture, transportation, telecommunications, borders, defence, international relations, treaty succession and trade.

"This Plan is about replacing speculation with preparation," said Wilson. "Alberta would not be starting from scratch. Most of the institutions, infrastructure, businesses and professional workforces Albertans rely on already exist. The task is to identify what must continue, what must change, what must be negotiated and what new sovereign functions would have to be established and tested before Day 1 of independence."

The Plan organizes the transition into three practical phases: preparation before an independence referendum, negotiation and implementation following a successful referendum, and stabilization after independence. A separate constitutional track would allow Albertans to develop and ratify a permanent constitution without making that process a prerequisite for Day 1.

Its purpose is practical rather than political: to show how continuity could be protected while legal authority and external arrangements change.

"The practical test is whether ordinary life can continue while constitutional authority changes," said Kalma. "Can government continue, courts remain open, payments arrive, banks operate, goods move and essential services function? The Plan breaks those challenges into identifiable readiness steps."

The Plan recognizes that not every negotiating outcome can be known in advance, but it shows that the transition itself can be prepared for with discipline and confidence. It identifies what Alberta can control directly, the agreements to be pursued with Canada, First Nations, the United States and other partners, and practical plans to keep essential systems working while independence is implemented.

The Alberta Transition Plan is available today at AlbertaTransitionCouncil.com.

SOURCE Alberta Transition Council