Alberta and the Constitution: Additional Protection for Provincial Resource Ownership and Senate Reform

Perhaps the point to stress is that the 1982 Constitution Act brought to a successful conclusion Alberta's campaign to provide additional constitutional protection for provincial resource ownership. Indeed, Alberta secured more from the 1982 Act, with respect to economic protection, than did Quebec with respect to cultural protection. In any event, the stage was set for the second and more difficult act in the constitutional drama—the reform of national institutions, and more specifically the Senate.

--Roger Gibbins, "Alberta and the National Community," in Government and Politics in Alberta, ed. Allan Tupper and Roger Gibbins (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1992), 74.