Saskatchewan now has an organized secession push on the road, as the Saskatchewan Prosperity Project runs a three-week sprint of town halls explicitly framed around what would an “independent Saskatchewan” look like, mirroring the escalation cycle already unfolding next door in Alberta.
The group says it has held 10 town halls across churches, civic centres, and banquet rooms, with reported attendance reaching 160 in Saskatoon and 260 in Swift Current.
SPP president Brad Williams has leaned into a “take us with you” organizing pitch, telling Alberta YouTuber John Bolton: “When you go, we want to be right in your back pocket and go with you.”
Williams has also described his entry into separatist politics as rapid and decision-based, saying he started in October by writing down pros and cons of staying in Canada. He concluded the pro-independence side was “really long” while the status quo had “zero.”
The “Prosperity Project” label is not accidental: SPP is described as closely aligned with the Alberta Prosperity Project, which has been among the most active groups pressing for a separation referendum and has publicly claimed it held “high level” discussions with US counterparts in Washington focused on economic partnerships and energy security.
Substantively, Saskatchewan’s grievances are presented as distinct from Alberta’s oil-and-gas-centered fight with Ottawa, but both provinces are net contributors to Confederation and have led provincial resistance on files such as carbon-tax policy and firearms regulation.
Williams has also framed the case as cultural as much as fiscal, arguing “Easterners are just different than we are out west here.”
In an Angus Reid Institute poll earlier this year, 33% of Saskatchewan respondents said they would vote to leave Canada if Prime Minister Mark Carney won the April 28 federal election, higher than Alberta and Quebec at 30%.
Elections Alberta has certified a citizen-initiative petition question asking, “Do you agree that Alberta should remain in Canada,” organized by the anti-separatist Alberta Forever Canada group, but functionally structured as a proxy test of independence if it proceeds as written.
Even with rising prairie sentiment, recent electoral performance has been less dramatic: in Alberta’s Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills by-election, two separatist-aligned options together drew 19%, slightly behind the 20% won by the NDP.
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