ABOUT ALBERTA FREE ENERGY

Benoit “Ben” Trudeau comes from a Montreal entrepreneurial family. Urban Planner by trade (B. Sc. Montreal University), Benoit has navigated within the small business and political world since his early age, starting his first business at 14 years old and getting involved in Municipal, Provincial and Federal politics at age 18.

Benoit was part of the founding members of the “Action Démocratique du Quebec (ADQ)” in 1994 and was an MLA candidate at age 22. He then became very involved in the 1995 Quebec Referendum.

In the same period, Benoit was running a small multimedia business, promoting then new medias called the Internet and CD-ROMs. The small business first worked in desktop publishing, producing training books for General Motors and Bombardier, while pushing new multimedia technologies (IP Cameras and 3D animations), implementing the first computer-based training program at IBM Micro-electronics in Quebec, Vermont and New-York.

The small company took over a public company on the Toronto “Pink Market” in 1997, pushing new technologies including the first Web-TV console (with a wireless keyboard) and microwave high-speed internet systems. 

Following his multimedia venture, Benoit joined an event production company which became the largest one in the Province, organizing close to 500 press conferences per year as well as special events (closing ceremonies and auction of the Montreal Forum, Opening ceremonies of the Molson Centre, opening ceremonies of the Montreal Planet Hollywood, etc.) as well as promotional videos and CD-ROMs productions for Merck-Frost, Roche Diagnostics, McKesson, Air Canada (including on-board videos), Michelin, the launch of Loblaws/No Names/President’s Choice in Quebec, and many other clients and projects.

In January of 2006, Benoit was hired as a Special Assistant to Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn, Minister of Labour and Minister of Canada Economic Development Agency (CEDA) for the Region of Quebec. As the main advisor of the minister for the CEDA, he was reviewing and looking for Ministerial consent for over $4.5B of grant distributed to Quebec SME’s as well as municipalities who were eligible to benefit from the Canada Infrastructure Program.

He left the minister’s office shortly after landing in Alberta to work on land development projects within the Edmonton region.

Obtaining the distribution of a new German steel foundation system in 2012, he spent 6 years with an office at the University of Alberta, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the School of Mining & Petroleum Engineering as an “Academic Guest” sponsoring research and helping Master’s, PhD., and Post-doctorate students to perform their experiments on innovative foundation concepts. 

Benoit is putting his deep knowledge and experience in Technology, Research, Public Relations, Politics, Planning and his keen sense of practicality and troubleshooting, to offer to small business owners, organizations, and communities an innovative solution to make them self-reliant, implementing local proven energy solutions, which are economically viable and will leave a better province to our children.

Mr. George Bears, a strong visionary, and a principled influential leader, has developed deep social & business networks along with the related expertise in working with commercial enterprises, corporate donors, financial institutions, charitable organizations, and private lenders.  George has represented the interests of various entities and secured funding for various developments, primarily in the areas of oil and gas, mining, real estate, and tech sector developments, as well as for select charitable organizations over the last 25 years.

Most recently, during the darkness and confusion surrounding the local and global government responses to the global pandemic challenge, George passionately cofounded the social community and liberty education organization - Taking Back Our Freedoms, and he proceeded to also play a key on site role in Ottawa in providing support and logistics for the notorious Canadian Freedom Convoy, while educating Canadians in awareness as to why it’s critically important that we all recognize and take action to prevent the advancement of tyrannical government ideology and related social controls in Canada.

With an absolute lion’s heart liberty for justice, George served for 5 years (1986-1991) in Ottawa, as National Director with Victims of Violence in the Canadian Criminal Justice System, advocating in Parliament and across the country for surviving family members who lost loved ones to homicide.  He has personally spearheaded Canada’s first and only national unsolved homicide research and identification program, and he also established a National Missing Children’s registry.

Despite a serious lack of fresh lobster and mussels, famous to the beaches of George’s up bringing on the shores of PEI, George and his family have lived and worked in Alberta since the mid 90’s, and are very proud to call this great Province their home.

Dennis (Den) Crawford began his career as a Petroleum Technologist with PanCanadian Petroleum, working in various production operations and reservoir engineering capacity’s during his 5-year tenure in the Alberta energy sector.  Dennis eventually shifted his career development focus from the energy sector to the Financial Planning and the Investment Advisory industry, at which time he joined the “family business” – an established and reputable operating securities firm (Advantage Investment Services Corp) and it’s family owned subsidiary – Crawford Financial Services Corp.

 The Crawford family merged the family-owned securities dealer into a larger national securities dealer in 1998, and eventually, with a few additional industry mergers and acquisitions along the way, the securities firm Advantage Investment Services Corp ultimately became part of the Desjardins Financial Security Independent Network (DFSIN).

During his 34-year career in the Financial Services industry, Dennis garnered a diverse array of personal client facing skills, as well as team member and management skills, in delivering real value to active clients and their families.  These long-term client relationships were earned, onboarded, and maintained over the years by consistently delivering the highest quality products, service, personalized relationships, and planning advice possible.  In addition to the technical and industry skills and knowledge developed, Dennis quickly and naturally established strong rapport and enduring trust-based relationships with clients and business colleagues alike.

In the aftermath of moving through the experience of the recent Canadian systemic response to the Covid pandemic, Dennis was deeply moved to proactively and gracefully retire from his extended career in financial services and bring forward his deep desire to participate in the building out of a stronger, free, and much more “resilient” Alberta.  After a series of incredibly synchronistic events, Dennis became aligned with his good friends and colleagues (Ben & George), and shortly thereafter, the first registered Alberta Lobby & Development firm was incepted by his colleagues and was exclusively mandated for the advancement of independently owned Alberta Small and Medium sized business interests.  Dennis served as a contracted employee to Alberta Free Inc in 2024, and in 2025 Alberta Free Energy Corp (ABFE) was formed for the express purpose of micro power co generation development in Alberta, and Dennis in addition to being a co founder and shareholder of ABFE, serves as a Director and an Officer.