Alberta 2026 to organize a referendum on separation from Canada … if …

Canada will face the challenge of keeping all its provinces together in 2026 as Alberta Premier Daniel Smith said she would make a referendum on the separation of the province, if a petition manages to get the required number of signature. “Whether Ottawa, whatever reason, should continue attacking our province because they have done in the last decade, eventually it will be for Albertons,” he said.“I will accept his decision.” The demand for separation from Canada after the Liberal Party won the election last week intensified.Daniel said that she did not want to believe that a referendum would certainly happen, but she said that she would respect the voting process. Smith said that his government has no plans to raise the question of separation from Alberta from Canada, but his government is taking steps to demand respect from Ottawa. “I don’t support Alberta, who separates from Canada,” Smith said. “I personally still hope that a joint is a strong and a way forward for sovereign Alberta within Canada. So I am going to do everything within my power to interact with the new Prime Minister on an appropriate deal for Alberta.” Smith said, “In the coming months, there will be many who will try to sow fear and anger among us. People who want to divide Alberta,” Smith said.

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Alberta introduced the law, which would cut the threshold required to trigger a provincial referendum when passed. Under the proposed bill, a petition will require 10 percent signature of eligible voters in the last general election – below 20 percent of the total registered voters. Applicants will get 120 days instead of 90 to collect 177,000 signatures required to open referendum votes.He said that there has always been disappointment in Alberta against Ottawa and only frustration has increased in recent years. “It always ebed and flows, but it has always been in the background in Alberta electoral politics and it has just erupted,” he said.