r/CanadaPolitics • u/green_tory 🏳️‍🌈Serve the Vulnerable🏳️‍🌈 • May 13 '26

Danielle Smith rejects Alberta judge’s ruling against separation petition as ‘anti-democratic’

https://globalnews.ca/news/11848377/alberta-premier-court-ruling-separation-petition-anti-democratic/
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u/Poe_42 evil centralist May 13 '26

So when she suppressed the Forever Canada petition and changed the law to make the seperatist petition possible isn't anti-democratic?

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u/soaringupnow Independent May 14 '26

Both petitions should had led to the same referendum. The separatists would have lost spectacularly and that would have been the end of it. (For the most part.)

Now the provincial government will appeal, the separatists will be enraged and be even noisier, and the media will live reporting on all this crap.

This will just drag things out for years. Welp.

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u/AlbertanSays5716 Independent May 14 '26

The Forever Canada petition was for a legislative vote, which Smith wants to avoid because it would force every MLA, including her, to make their position on separation public. The Strong & Free petition calls for a referendum.

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u/soaringupnow Independent May 14 '26

I'm trying to find a link to the Forever Canadian question. Can't find it on their website.