Sheila Gunn Reid

🧵THREAD: Alberta just made a referendum on separation realistic—and they did it the day after Mark Carney became Prime Minister. Here's what you need to know:

1. Yesterday, Mark Carney won a Liberal minority—thanks to Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic Canada.
Today, Alberta introduced a bill that quietly makes it possible to hold a referendum on LEAVING Canada.
Coincidence? Not a chance.

2. In the UCP’s new “Election Statutes Amendment Act” is a change to the Citizen Initiative Act—a law that allows regular people to propose referendums, even on constitutional issues like separation.
Until now, it was a joke

3. Under Jason Kenney, the rules required signatures from 20% of ALL eligible voters in just 90 days.
That’s over 600,000 names—impossible for any grassroots movement.
It was built to fail.

4. Danielle Smith just changed that.
Now, you only need 10% of people who voted in the last election.
That’s just over 208,000 signatures—doable with enough momentum.
It’s not just symbolic anymore.

5. Let that sink in:
As the Laurentian elite cheers Carney’s coronation, Alberta just unlocked a legal path to break away from Ottawa.
This isn’t sabre-rattling.
It’s legislation.

6. Yes, the bill includes other changes:

Bans vote tabulators

Tightens ID rules

Allows special ballots for anyone

Brings back corporate/union donations (with disclosure) 

But the referendum clause is the real change.

7. Albertans have been watching the Liberals hijack their resources, demonize their industries, ignore their votes, and attack our culture of freedom and self-reliance. 
Now they’ve been handed a tool to fight back.
Not with protests.
Not with hashtags.
With a referendum.

8. And for the first time in Alberta history, it’s not a fantasy.
It’s a form.
A timeline.
A number: 208,000.

9. This change doesn’t guarantee Alberta’s exit.
But it opens the gate—and now the question is:
Who’s ready to walk through it? And who will follow after? 
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