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As 2021 starts to wind down, we look back on yet another challenging year for our province, dominated by unprecedented restrictions on our economic, civil, and social freedoms the likes of which none of us could have ever anticipated in a modern, free society.

We have also faced continued economic challenges from resource prices, federal regulation, and inequalities in confederation, as well as new problems like rising inflation rates caused by runaway government spending.

Given everything that has happened, it would be easy to be pessimistic, decide it's hopeless, and give up.

But, at the Alberta Institute, we believe in free minds and free markets, smaller government and lower taxes, civil liberties and individual choice, and we believe those values are still worth fighting for.

Alberta Minute - Your weekly one-minute summary of Alberta politics.

Alberta Minute - Your weekly one-minute summary of Alberta politics.

Alberta Minute - Your weekly one-minute summary of Alberta politics.

Alberta Minute - Your weekly one-minute summary of Alberta politics.

Alberta Minute - Your weekly one-minute summary of Alberta politics.

Alberta Minute - Your weekly one-minute summary of Alberta politics.

Alberta Minute - Your weekly one-minute summary of Alberta politics.

Alberta Minute - Your weekly one-minute summary of Alberta politics.

This week we teamed up with the Western Standard to conduct a poll on the provincial equalization referendum taking place next Monday, in conjunction with Alberta's municipal elections.

Respondents were asked:

“On the referendum question of eliminating equalization payments, how would you vote today? The exact question is: Should Section 36(2) of the Constitution Act, 1982 — Parliament and the Government of Canada’s commitment to the principle of making equalization payments — be removed from the Constitution?”