A new, robust, Constitution of Alberta with extensive checks and balances on power is currently being drafted for the Alberta public to review and weigh in on. The new Constitution will ensure that elected officials and unelected bureaucrats always uphold the following values: accountability, responsibility, honesty, competency, transparency, and respectfulness as public servants, and to hold their office with dignity and integrity. All officials will sign a “Code of Conduct” to ensure that they clearly understand their responsibilities and how they will be held accountable, and potentially subject to recall unlike any current policy of any political party. Elected officials will be responsible to implement the policies for which they were elected and, failing to do so, along with complicit bureaucrats, will be subject to recall in a manner more robust and immediate than has hitherto existed. These recall measures are documented in the proposed “Party Bylaws” document and in the governance section of the proposed “Policy and Governance” document on the website.
The public will have the final word on the new Constitution of Alberta. The suggestion to abrogate the pensions for those elected or appointed officials who “transgress the Constitution” may well be included if that is the will of the voters.