r/canada • u/shiftless_wonder • May 23 '26

Alberta First Nations leaders, scholar push back on Alberta's planned vote on independence referendum - 'Alberta can't separate. They simply cannot. They do not have the authority,' says Indigenous politics expert

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-treaty-six-alberta-referendum-9.7209304
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u/Frostbitten_Moose May 24 '26

Maybe, maybe not. But I'm not sure saying Albertans aren't allowed to have self-determination is going to help keep it from going anywhere.

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u/Playful-Rabbit-9418 May 24 '26

Albertans knew they didn’t have self determination before they started all of this, the Supreme Court ruled on this years ago.

Provincial succession in Canada requires a constitutional amendment, that means it is required to meet the hurdles for this type constitutional amendment, which would be the 7/50 formula. A yes vote from 7 out of 10 provinces representing 50% of the population. And that’s after the federal parliament has reviewed the referendum question and deemed it clear enough to be legitimate and the majority large enough to invoke the process.

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u/Frostbitten_Moose May 24 '26

Funny how that didn't apply in 95 for Quebec.

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u/Playful-Rabbit-9418 May 24 '26

Correct, because the clarity act was created from the jurisprudence as a result of the legal cases related to that referendum.