Alberta doesn’t ask permission. This bear doesn’t either. Untamed. Unregulated. Unbothered.
You in Ottawa—yes, you—keep reaching for a collar. Emissions caps. Pipeline strangulation. Lectures from the Laurentian paper-pushers. This is not complicated.
Section 92 of the Constitution Act, 1867, hands non-renewable natural resources to the provinces. Premier Danielle Smith cites it while invoking the Sovereignty within a United Canada Act to block your data raids on oil-and-gas sites and your unconstitutional overreach. She has said Alberta will not let Ottawa stand in its way. Fiercely loyal to Canada—yet the days of Ottawa dictating energy, agriculture, and the prairie engine are finished. Wheat. Oil. Zero patience.[1]
Nature’s Order, Not Your Committee
Alberta Parks is explicit: every pet on a leash no longer than two metres in provincial parks and recreation areas. An off-leash dog harasses wildlife, gets itself injured, or leads an agitated grizzly straight back to you. That’s impulse control and personal responsibility—not nanny-state theatre. The bear itself wears no leash. It stares you down.[2]
In Kananaskis a young grizzly showed persistent, dog-focused behaviour toward a leashed Dutch shepherd, closing to within a metre. The owner held the line, yelled it off, both walked away. Parks issued the warning. Leash plus composure. Nature does not convene a stakeholder meeting.[3]
Hunters? Working dogs off-leash in select wildlife management units for black-bear hunts—predator management the province says supports caribou recovery. Trained, GPS-tracked, under command. Activists howl. Results speak. This is not complicated.[4]
Al-Bear-Ta answers to nobody. If the province had a mascot it would not sit. It would stare you down, Mr. Producer. Get off the phone.
Because unregulated is a personality trait out here.