{"id":798535,"date":"2026-07-13T06:27:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798535\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T06:27:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:27:31","slug":"koch-mason-a-unilateral-declaration-of-independence-and-the-51st-state-ottawas-clarity-act-could-push-alberta-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798535\/","title":{"rendered":"KOCH \/ MASON: A unilateral declaration of independence and the 51st State? Ottawa\u2019s Clarity Act could push Alberta there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"arrow-component arr--section-name\" aria-label=\"section-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernstandard.news\/opinion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The federal Clarity Act was designed to crush independence \u2014 but its one-sided rules could instead push Alberta toward a unilateral declaration of independence.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta independence supporters gathered to watch Mitch Sylvestre submit the Stay Free Alberta petition. WS: Will Vasseur<\/p>\n<p><a aria-label=\"author-image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernstandard.news\/author\/western-standard-guest-columnist\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAD\/ACwAAAAAAQABAAACADs=\" alt=\"Western Standard Guest Columnist\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\"  class=\"qt-image\"\/><\/a>Published on:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>12 Jul 2026, 3:30 pm<\/p>\n<p>Loading content, please wait&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opinion The federal Clarity Act was designed to crush independence \u2014 but its one-sided rules could instead push&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[901,49,48,281380,927,66321,20739,281381,281382,38058,174762],"class_list":["post-798535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-alberta","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-clarity-act","tag-opinion","tag-opinion-column","tag-ottawa","tag-udi","tag-unilateral-declaration-of-independence","tag-western","tag-western-independence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}