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If that is the best carnage can come up with, he is doomed. The vote they are about to have amounts to a pleblecite, which is little more than asking taxpayers which way the might want the government to go. Has zero to do with their platform.
Which the majority voted for. And for the most part are happy with, even though it probably cost carnage money personally.
Look who appointed the judge.
Natives get to vote yes too. With land and oil/gas,/mineral rights owned by Natives they'd own the Rez not the Crown because it would be a Republic of Alberta.
Eventually first nations will be the majority and look back saying "Holy fuck ah, fuckin whitie set us up good.". Anyways.
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Alberta separatist leader pushes fall referendum Option 2 vote to give premier leverage with Ottawa
'Voting for Option 2 gives the premier leverage. Voting Option 1 is a surrender'
Author of the article:Cindy Tran
Published Sep 20, 2026 • Last updated 1 hour ago • 2 minute read
The Canadian flag and an Alberta provincial flag fly together in Cochrane.
The Canadian flag and an Alberta provincial flag fly together in Cochrane. Photo by Gavin Young /Postmedia
Even those opposing Alberta separation should vote Option 2 on the fall ballot, arming Premier Danielle Smith with leverage to make constitutional reforms with Ottawa, separatist advocate Keith Wilson told a Sunday forum hosted by former Reform Party of Canada leader Preston.
Manning and former B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell co-hosted the Alberta and the West Assembly online forum over two days, hearing an emotional address from Smith on Saturday and Wilson on Sunday. Pro-independence advocates made the case for Alberta’s separation citing grievances over equalization, federal interference, and oil and gas regulations.
Wilson, a lawyer and co-chair of Let Alberta Decide, encouraged all Albertans — even those who are against separation — to vote in favour of Option 2, which asks the government to begin the process to hold a binding referendum on separation. Option 1 asks if Alberta should remain a province in Canada.
“Voting for Option 2 gives the premier leverage. Voting Option 1 is a surrender. It is a message to Prime Minister Carney and Ottawa that Albertans are fine with the current arrangement, that everything’s okay,” Wilson said.
Voting for Option 2 of question 10 is not about agreeing with separation, Wilson stressed, but whether Albertans are happy with the status quo.
Wilson, responding to a question, said a majority vote for Option 2 would “completely take the wind out of the current pushes” for a separatist party.
On Saturday, Smith said she is campaigning for Alberta to remain in Canada and the referendum on separation is framed as it is so as not to detract from the other nine questions on the ballot around immigration and the constitution, issues she is looking to get a mandate on through the referendum.
“I want to really hunker down and focus on my nine, on addressing the nine questions that I’ve put forward. That’s part of the reason I want such a strong mandate there, and I think it gives me leverage.”
Bruce Pardy, a Queen’s University Law professor on leave serving as executive director Rights Probe, earlier on Sunday said there is no way for Canada to fundamentally change how it operates under the current system.
The greatest risk in pursuing Alberta independence, he said, is reproducing the same system it is trying to “escape.”
“To save the country, Alberta must leave the country; only in the face of a political earthquake will Canada face its own deep problem,” Pardy said. “Alberta it is time to go.”
“Part of this is you have to accept a certain degree of risk if you’re going to go down the political revolutionary route,” Pardy said.
ctran@postmedia.com
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'Voting for Option 2 gives the premier leverage. Voting Option 1 is a surrender'
Author of the article:Cindy Tran
Published Sep 20, 2026 • Last updated 1 hour ago • 2 minute read
The Canadian flag and an Alberta provincial flag fly together in Cochrane.
The Canadian flag and an Alberta provincial flag fly together in Cochrane. Photo by Gavin Young /Postmedia
Even those opposing Alberta separation should vote Option 2 on the fall ballot, arming Premier Danielle Smith with leverage to make constitutional reforms with Ottawa, separatist advocate Keith Wilson told a Sunday forum hosted by former Reform Party of Canada leader Preston.
Manning and former B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell co-hosted the Alberta and the West Assembly online forum over two days, hearing an emotional address from Smith on Saturday and Wilson on Sunday. Pro-independence advocates made the case for Alberta’s separation citing grievances over equalization, federal interference, and oil and gas regulations.
Wilson, a lawyer and co-chair of Let Alberta Decide, encouraged all Albertans — even those who are against separation — to vote in favour of Option 2, which asks the government to begin the process to hold a binding referendum on separation. Option 1 asks if Alberta should remain a province in Canada.
“Voting for Option 2 gives the premier leverage. Voting Option 1 is a surrender. It is a message to Prime Minister Carney and Ottawa that Albertans are fine with the current arrangement, that everything’s okay,” Wilson said.
Voting for Option 2 of question 10 is not about agreeing with separation, Wilson stressed, but whether Albertans are happy with the status quo.
Wilson, responding to a question, said a majority vote for Option 2 would “completely take the wind out of the current pushes” for a separatist party.
On Saturday, Smith said she is campaigning for Alberta to remain in Canada and the referendum on separation is framed as it is so as not to detract from the other nine questions on the ballot around immigration and the constitution, issues she is looking to get a mandate on through the referendum.
“I want to really hunker down and focus on my nine, on addressing the nine questions that I’ve put forward. That’s part of the reason I want such a strong mandate there, and I think it gives me leverage.”
Bruce Pardy, a Queen’s University Law professor on leave serving as executive director Rights Probe, earlier on Sunday said there is no way for Canada to fundamentally change how it operates under the current system.
The greatest risk in pursuing Alberta independence, he said, is reproducing the same system it is trying to “escape.”
“To save the country, Alberta must leave the country; only in the face of a political earthquake will Canada face its own deep problem,” Pardy said. “Alberta it is time to go.”
“Part of this is you have to accept a certain degree of risk if you’re going to go down the political revolutionary route,” Pardy said.
ctran@postmedia.com
Alberta separatist leader pushes fall referendum Option 2 vote to give Premier Danielle Smith leverage with Ottawa
Even those opposing Alberta separation should vote Option 2 on the fall ballot, says one separatist leader.