Alberta MPs have some important summer homework

After years of 'Canada is broken' messaging, let’s hope Tory MPs remember to ditch their old scripts this summer lest Canada actually break.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, centre, serves up pancakes alongside Tory MP Jasraj Singh Hallan at the 2025 Calgary Stampede. Poilievre recently kicked off a campaign to promote a 'strong Alberta within a united Canada.' Photograph courtesy of X
Opinion
BY EDITORIAL
June 17, 2026

Members of Parliament are hitting the road—or the airports—and heading back to their ridings for the summer recess, and this barbecue season will be more consequential than most for MPs from Alberta in particular. 

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