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Setting aside the obvious right wing anti-immigration questions 2-5, the ones beginning with "Do you support the Government of Alberta working with the governments of other willing provinces to amend the Canadian Constitution..." made me chuckle.
Tried it before, didn't work.
Not an Albertan or Canadian. Could just be my lack of knowledge but the 7 and 8th questions seem reasonable to me? The explanations seem to be lacking.
7: Letting provincial governments to appoint provincial King's Bench and Appeals courts. What's the rationale for the federal government appointing provincial justices? Are these courts responsible just for provincial law, or all law?
8: Abolishing unelected federal Senate. What are these 'constitutional implications' that are so extreme? Why is the existence of an unelected senate so readily accepted because it's already there and it would be hard to remove? Can't another institution take its place as a check on federal power?
Number 7 would allow the province to stack a court with internally politically motivated individuals instead of remaining impartial. Basically you would let Danielle Smith stack the court to do whatever she wanted instead of having to run it by people that would keep her in check.
Number 8 may not be bad if you don't have a completely biased small group picking and choosing what they pass whenever they feel like it. There would be no way for us to know until they built the new system, but I'm betting it wouldn't be good. Yes they could make it better, but from everything I've seen this group is not interested in making things better for normal people.
7 if I read the text it’s to provincially appoint judges to interpret federal law. There’s a clear distinction between provincial and federal powers, this is just a power grab.
8 I think there’s other discussions about senate reform that should happen but let the other persons point this is too open.
Tl;dr these people should move to the States.
We don't distinguish between federal and provincial courts. Court of King's Bench and appeals cover all law, both provincial statute and federal statute. For an American corollary, consider what it would look like if states could appoint their own federal circuit court judges.