Mitch Sylvestre doesn’t sleep much, and after fifty-three minutes with him you understand why.
The CEO of the Alberta Prosperity Project joins Bruce Scholl with two weeks to go before the campaign kickoff — August 29, one o’clock, on the steps of the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton. Buses are running from across the province at about sixty dollars return. The last gathering drew 17,800 people by drone count, in winter coats. This one is in August, and Mitch wants tens of thousands.
His argument for showing up is blunt and it cuts both ways: a big crowd encourages our own side and sends a message to the other one. A thin crowd sends the opposite message, and the other side gets to point at it.
Then there’s the document. A draft Alberta Constitution — five years in the making, started in 2021 by the Black Hats out of Medicine Hat, the same people behind the Alberta Bill of Rights. It goes live on the APP website Monday or Tuesday, with a feedback link built into the first pages. Mitch is emphatic that it is a discussion paper and nothing more. Elected judges. Term limits. MLAs with little power and most questions put directly to the people. A living document that’s hard to change but not impossible.
He walks through the three-day constitutional weekend APP hosted in Edmonton — Bruce Pardy, Eva Chipiuk, Dennis Modry, Keith Wilson, and the Black Hats in one room, with Mitch in the corner taking notes. Pardy’s premise, that government begins with zero authority and only receives what it is explicitly handed, got the lawyers out of their chairs. Mitch loved it. He also asked Pardy whether he could stand at a town hall and promise it would work, and got told no. He’s honest about that, and about the unresolved treaty questions underneath it.
From there it opens up. The 1982 patriation that Albertans had no say in, and the transfer of power from Parliament to the judiciary. A Citizens’ Initiative petition that was supposed to trigger a vote and instead triggered a vote about having a vote. A judge who said, in effect, that some questions the people should not be allowed to ask. Danielle Smith, who APP actively recruited and who Mitch — a UCP constituency association chair, CA chair of the year, the party’s biggest fundraiser last year — now says is governing for a minority of her own base. A nomination race where the scrutineers counted 53 more ballots than signatures and the incumbent lost by one, and when he took it to the party he was told to take them to court.
There’s a new Wild Rose Women initiative aimed squarely at a gap in the movement, Bill C-9 and the Mennonite Church presenting on it at the rally, digital ID dressed up as child protection, and the story of a small-town retailer who got shut down in January of the COVID years, read the essential services list, discovered bike repair was on it, and reopened.
Mitch’s closing case is arithmetic. There are a lot of us and a few of them. They print the money, they control the media, they make the rules — and none of it works unless we listen.
October 19 is the vote. August 29 is the start.
Get on a bus, get the Constitution, and get involved: albertaprosperityproject.com
Rally: Saturday, August 29, 1:00 PM — Alberta Legislature, Edmonton. Campaign kickoff.
Buses: From across Alberta, ~$60 round trip. Book at albertaprosperityproject.com
Referendum: October 19, 2026
Draft Constitution: Digital release Monday or Tuesday at albertaprosperityproject.com — includes a feedback link. Discussion paper, not a final document.
Wild Rose Women: New APP initiative, launched this week. Pins available.
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