General Discussion

there have been fringe groups touting separation for decades and they can never get above 30% support. These latest groups get even less support, it is, at best, 27% and that number includes those who are lukewarm to the idea. The hardcore number is around 19%.

Smith and her government lowered the number of signatures needed, 177,000, extended the time for collection for this group and only did that after forcing the "Forever Canada" group to have to collect 294,000 over a shorter time frame. The "Forever Canada" group collected over 400,000 verified signatures.

The more serious issue is about the 9 questions being asked in an October referendum that asks questions on pensions, immigrants, judges and more. The questions were put together by this appalling government without any real communication with Albertans beforehand, much as they pretended it was otherwise. I can only hope Albertans do their due diligence on the 9 issues before going to the polls on them.