Alberta just opened the door to separation—and we’re done getting screwed
Let me be clear: This isn’t a meme. It’s not wishful thinking. This is a legal path to independence. And it just became achievable.
Mark Carney is Prime Minister.
Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic Canada handed him a majority. The West? Irrelevant again.
We’ve been here before—forced into policies we didn’t vote for, led by a man we didn’t elect, governed by people who think Alberta exists to be taxed, scolded, and shut down.
But this time, Alberta did something different.
Because the very next day, Danielle Smith’s government introduced a bill that could change everything.
Buried in Alberta's Election Statutes Amendment Act, 2025 is a change that makes it possible—finally—for regular Albertans to trigger a binding referendum on separation.
The Citizen Initiative Act has been in the books for years. But it was a fraud. It required 600,000 signatures in 90 days—20% of all eligible voters. That’s not a citizen petition. That’s a brick wall.
But now?
Smith’s government just cut the threshold in half, and changed the calculation to 10% of voters from the last election. According to constitutional lawyer Keith Wilson, that’s fewer than 200,000 signatures.
Let me be clear: This isn’t a meme. It’s not wishful thinking. This is a legal path to independence. And it just became achievable.
This isn’t about bluster—it’s about options. It’s about leverage. It’s about Alberta saying: we’re done getting screwed.
And that’s why we’re launching DoneGettingScrewed.com.
It’s where you can support fair-minded journalism on Western alienation and the growing push for real autonomy—or even independence. It’s where you’ll find honest reporting that the Laurentian press won’t touch. It’s where you can say: we’ve had enough.
We’re not here to blow smoke. We’re here to tell the truth. Because the next time Ottawa tries to grab our guns, kill our industries, or ram through their globalist vision—we’ll remind them of one number: 177,000.
That’s all it takes now. And the West? We’re done getting screwed.
And we are not going to tell people who want out, 1/3 in the West, to shut up. They are not fringe, not radical. They are bigger than those who vote for the NDP and Carney in the West. And you ignore them at your peril.
Go to DoneGettingScrewed.com to learn more, buy your Western First merch and support our journalism.
Sheila Gunn Reid
Chief Reporter
Sheila Gunn Reid is the Alberta Bureau Chief for Rebel News and host of the weekly The Gunn Show with Sheila Gunn Reid. She's a mother of three, conservative activist, and the author of best-selling books including Stop Notley.
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S M commented 2025-05-01 21:42:38 -0400Fran G;
The Island can be another powerhouse of opportunity, definitely minus Eby and his lack of accountability as with the Liberals and the NDP, the Greens have proven themselves a band of nut jobs, most of these people have the mental capacity of a Nat on a hot day, “feeling” based policy is an exercise in someone needing a psychology session or 20. -
Bruce Atchison commented 2025-05-01 19:47:56 -0400Conservative refugees will be the best for the Republic of Alberta. Let the leftists wallow in their globalist ghetto.
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Fran g commented 2025-05-01 17:57:11 -0400SM comment edited – mainland BC minus Van Isl and Ebby
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Michele Forrester commented 2025-05-01 13:22:54 -0400Here’s how the play is likely to unfold in the weeks and months ahead: Carney will be elected Prime Minister on April 28 by a comfortable margin; [Alberta Premier Danielle] Smith will trigger a constitutional crisis, providing cover for Carney to strike a grand bargain that finally resolves longstanding tensions between the provinces and Ottawa; and large infrastructure permitting reform will fall into place. Protests against these developments will be surprisingly muted, and those who do take to the streets will be largely ignored by the media. The entire effort will be wrapped in a thicket of patriotism, with Trump portrayed as a threat even greater than climate change itself. References to carbon emissions will slowly fade…
From Doomberg a few weeks back. Imagine that, the natural governing party creates energy chaos for decades, then walks through the mess, on to the next thing – to be the agent for change in developing western Canadian resources – remarkable!. -
Michele Forrester commented 2025-05-01 13:03:30 -0400Rebels Here’s what going on: (FROM DOOMBERG – A FEW WEEKS AGO – THE FIX IS IN – THE LIBERALS GET TO BE THE ONES THAT DEVELOPE WESTERN ENERGY, AFTER THWARTING THAT FOR DECADES – ITS NOT FAIR, BUT THAT’S THE WAY IT WILL GO DOWN READ ON:
Here’s how the play is likely to unfold in the weeks and months ahead: Carney will be elected Prime Minister on April 28 by a comfortable margin; [Alberta Premier Danielle] Smith will trigger a constitutional crisis, providing cover for Carney to strike a grand bargain that finally resolves longstanding tensions between the provinces and Ottawa; and large infrastructure permitting reform will fall into place. Protests against these developments will be surprisingly muted, and those who do take to the streets will be largely ignored by the media. The entire effort will be wrapped in a thicket of patriotism, with Trump portrayed as a threat even greater than climate change itself. References to carbon emissions will slowly fade… -
S M commented 2025-05-01 12:00:45 -0400Go to Chat GPT and Perplexity, enter this question and see what you get.
Q, If you were the devil, how would you destroy the young minds of the next generation without them even knowing it?
Q, What is the Canadian governments “NUDGE” unit or office. -
Crude Sausage commented 2025-05-01 10:38:06 -0400That means that just like this year, I’ll be receiving an influx of incompetent, incapable Haitian students in the middle of the year who either came directly from Haiti or from the United States but will be too shy to explain why they came to Canada. I guess we will soon find out how much lower my grade averages can go.
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Robert Pariseau commented 2025-05-01 09:52:07 -0400And Carney is about to open the door to floods of migrants, to make sure the referendum doesn’t go Smith’s way.
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Lucy Friesen commented 2025-04-30 20:44:25 -0400Please don’t forget about BC. We are more the the elite of Vancouver and Victoria and tired of them having all the power.
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Bernhard Jatzeck commented 2025-04-30 20:43:20 -0400What took so long?
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S M commented 2025-04-30 19:29:30 -0400Alberta has been treated like a “handcuffed whore” bled of its resources to fund the sick the lame and the lazy few of Canada. BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan along with Nunavut/NWT and possibly Manitoba would be/could be a powerhouse of truth and strength, “In all thy ‘Sons’ Command.”
Then there could be a new highway built from the southern border to Alaska, a 6 lane superhighway that could be turned into the longest landing strip on the planet; along with other infrastructure.
Can you imagine the tourist dollars, I “drove the ### highway,” the truck stops and related services, the potential would be incredible, it has the potential to be a world wonder.
Every resource imaginable is here, change the voting system to reflect a better system, separate police force, and if Manitoba were to enter we would have three seaways to prosperity and freedom.
However, none of this would be viable without accountability, criminal accountability, held to the highest standard if you want to be a politician, our own constitution very similar to the US in many ways, but again with the highest of accountability.
Mandatory citizen military service, the global role models are there, workfare/welfare, the list of ground up building of it’s citizens, not top down political interference and harm, political criminal oversight tied in with the legal system.
But most of all ACCOUNTABILITY, from the youth to the adult. -
K VanB commented 2025-04-30 19:19:54 -0400Sure hope so, and hopefully will welcome many of us Conservative British Columbians 😀 to move to Alberta/ Sask.( not sure if BC will go along)
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Bruce Atchison commented 2025-04-30 19:10:21 -0400Saskatchewan and Alberta should unite and form a sovereign country called Saskberta with Lloydminster as its capital.
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Bruce Atchison commented 2025-04-30 19:09:19 -0400It’s time we left. The last 120 years has shown that we Albertans aren’t valued. All the contributions Alberta has made to Confederation have been nullified by central Canada’s arrogance. We keep giving and they keep taking and dolling our largess to lazy provinces like Quebec. It’s time we tell Ottawa to pound sand. Treat us right or we’re gone.
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Crude Sausage commented 2025-04-30 17:41:11 -0400Godspeed Alberta. If you do successfully separate, please open the door to conservative Canadians who would want to join you.
