I think if they were to stock bass in alberta a good spot to start would be small local community ponds that they stock every year with trout anyways. See how they do and they are normally just snow melt and rain runoff ponds anyways and alot of them don't have any kind of major water source connected to them. They put a small areation system in if the oxygen would be a problem and try stocking those little ponds for a few years and see how they work out. If they figure it isn't going to work then just stop stocking them and they will die off and if it does work then look into other bigger lakes.
This would cut down on the amount of small put and take rainbow ponds and make for a bit of variety. It also wouldn't cost anymore since they stock them with trout every year anyways so they could just take the money they were going to use for those trout and switch it to bass. Even a few years of experimenting would be worth a shot.
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