Expect dirty tricks as Alberta separation referendum heats up
The first group out of the gate is the Alberta Prosperity Project. They're pre-signing up a lot of signatures, so that when the official clock is started for the 120 days, they’ll already have a head start on the 177,000.
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Tonight: The Alberta separatism referendum has a proposed question.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we read Alberta's laws for citizen recall and referendums, looking at the possibility of using those laws for their purposes, which is to recall atrocious legislators and force special byelections. However, we quickly discovered — and reported at the time — that the number of required signatures made the process practically impossible. It was deliberately set so high that it could never be done. It was a way for the government to pretend that it was democratic. Jason Kenney was responsible for this, along with — to their discredit — his cabinet.
But what he did, without realizing it at the time, was put in place the processes anyway. So, along came Danielle Smith, who revised those numbers to make them a challenge, but not an impossibility.
177,000 signatures needed for a referendum — that's 10% of the 1.77 million people who voted. It has to be collected in 120 days. That can be done.
The first group out of the gate on the issue of separation is the Alberta Prosperity Project. They're pre-signing up a lot of signatures, so that when the official clock is started for the 120 days, they’ve already got a head start. They'll get their 177,000.
But there are going to be challenges. Think of the massive defamation you're about to see — the total deplatforming of anyone who dares to weigh in on the side of Alberta, even of people who think the referendum itself is healthy, or those who think Alberta could just use a bargaining chip. You can already see what they're trying to do to Danielle Smith, just for allowing the referendum. She's not even promoting it; she’s essentially said she'll vote no, but she's being smeared as a "traitor" nonetheless. Even though it has Quebec's precedent, Ottawa's Clarity Act, and the Supreme Court's blessing.
There's going to be trickery. Remember that 90 or so fake candidates who registered to run against Pierre Poilievre in his Carleton riding? Expect a lot of that, lots of false flag operations — like the fake Nazi swastika that someone took a picture of at the trucker convoy, but that no-one who was there actually saw. Like the fake buttons that the Liberal Party dirty tricksters spread at a Conservative convention earlier this spring to try to smear Pierre Poilievre. Expect that times a hundred.
The stakes couldn't be any higher, and so expect the dirty tricks to match it.
Tonight, we're holding a town hall meeting in Edmonton. On Wednesday, we'll be in Calgary. Both events have sold out, totalling about 800 tickets. Clearly, people want to talk about this issue.
If you want to know where Ezra stands, he stands against Ottawa's war on Alberta. He stands against Mark Carney and Steven Guilbeault, and the other eco-extremists who want to put eco-tariffs on Alberta to kill its jobs. All this huffing and puffing about Trump's tariffs on Ontario — fair enough. But isn't that exactly what the feds have been doing to Alberta for 45 years?
Danielle Smith is clever. She wants to negotiate a better deal for Alberta with Carney. If she gets it, the referendum will probably fail.
If she doesn't, it will probably succeed.
COMMENTS
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Fran g commented 2025-05-14 15:30:40 -0400I dont want to separate, I want to stay and fight Carnage -
Marva Pedersen followed this page 2025-05-13 13:36:17 -0400
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Don Hrehirchek commented 2025-05-13 12:11:58 -0400Jane B. I agree with You 100 percent. Even In Our National Anthem the word God is in it. Please do not be duped by the politicians as there is evil every where.
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Jane Branchflower commented 2025-05-13 11:04:00 -0400I live in southern Ontario and support Alberta. Albertans have been very shabbily treated by eastern Canada. If I lived there I think I would want out, too.
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Jane Branchflower commented 2025-05-13 10:59:46 -0400This nation was founded by men who based their deliberations on Ps. 72:8 which says God shall have dominion from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth. I’ve heard that that particular verse is chiseled around the top of the Peace Tower. We have walked away from God and now Canada’s only hope is to follow the advice found in II Chronicles 7:14:
14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. -
John Watson commented 2025-05-13 10:36:57 -0400Any particular reason to not include a link to the Alberta Prosperity Project?
I appreciate the coverage; it’s more than the MSM will allow.
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Dr. Thorpe Watson commented 2025-05-13 10:08:58 -0400The referendum to separate will succeed if Albertans are allowed to learn that Carney’s net-zero agenda is a rejection of fossil fuels as an energy source and that Carney’s true allegiance lies with the globalist elite, not the people of Canada. To achieve his goals (WEF’s Great Reset, ESG), he will keep the populace alarmed by continuing to menace it with the imaginary climate-change hobgoblin.
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Don Hrehirchek commented 2025-05-12 23:48:01 -0400Thanks for the info Jerry P.
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Jerry Purvis commented 2025-05-12 23:06:52 -0400I know our President Trump likes to troll our northern neighbors about a 51st state, but it’s not going to happen. Our Constitution requires yes votes from 2/3 of Congress and then 3/4 of all 50 states before a new state can be added. Funny that Carney never mentioned that during the campaign when he was trying to scare you into voting for him. Still, I wish you the best as you try to figure out what to do next. Remember, you have friends here in the states.
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Bernhard Jatzeck commented 2025-05-12 21:54:27 -0400Why is this not surprising?
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Patrick Laybolt commented 2025-05-12 21:34:03 -0400I live in Saskatchewan. A country that has l yet again voted for a Federal government that actively attacks western Canada, will not change unless Alberta separates. Let’s vote.
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Annette Mort commented 2025-05-12 21:24:17 -0400Where do I sign?
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Tim Hohm commented 2025-05-12 20:51:43 -0400Yes there should be a referendum.
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Bruce Atchison commented 2025-05-12 20:29:02 -0400Good point about suspecting dirty tricks from the establishment. Grifters all want us to stay and power their gravy train.
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Bruce Atchison commented 2025-05-12 20:28:01 -0400Streeters show me how stupid some people are. But we Albertans must decide if we’re going to get hosed by Ottawa for years to come or chart our own course. I say we separate from this toxic and abusive relation.
