Carney flies to Alberta to fight a referendum Albertans wrote themselves
At a packed Calgary rally, the Prime Minister claimed foreign forces want to tear Canada apart. Premier Danielle Smith answered with her own slogan within hours.
Albertans head to the polls Monday, October 19, to vote on ten referendum questions — and this week, Ottawa decided it couldn't stay out of it.
Prime Minister Mark Carney spent two days in the province campaigning against nine questions Albertans themselves put forward through town halls and the Alberta Next panel, telling a crowd of roughly 5,000 at Calgary's BMO Centre that unnamed outsiders were trying to fracture the country.
The nine questions touch on voter citizenship checks, reserving provincial services for citizens and status residents, waiting periods for temporary residents, and provincial authority over immigration, courts, the Senate, and shared jurisdiction — all pursued through Canada's existing constitutional amending process. The tenth and final question, on separation itself, went strangely unmentioned in his Calgary remarks.
Polling shows strong support for several of the measures, even as separation itself remains a distant minority position.
Why a sitting PM is spending his political capital fighting a provincial ballot question — and what does that say about who in Canada actually gets Ottawa's attention?
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