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On July 24, we gave Elections Alberta 30 days to do its job. We said that if it didn't investigate Thomas Lukaszuk's Forever Canadian group, we would seek a judicial review in the Court of King's Bench.

It didn't. So we did.

On September 10, our lawyer Chad Williamson filed Rebel News Network Ltd. v. Election Commissioner of Alberta and Chief Electoral Officer of Alberta, court file 2601-16399. A judge will hear it in Emergency Chambers on Monday, September 14, at 2:00 p.m. at the Calgary Courts Centre. The full court filing is posted at StopTheCheaters.com, and the documents are linked at the bottom of this page.

Everyone can see the double standard. Elections Alberta has investigated and penalized Rebel News before. But when the biggest "remain" campaign in the referendum reports $0.00 in donations, week after week, Elections Alberta sits on a 241-page complaint for seven weeks and says nothing.

Forever Canadian is registered with Elections Alberta as a referendum third party advertiser. It runs a serious, well-funded campaign: a Unity Bus touring the province, offices in Edmonton and Calgary, rallies, thousands of professional lawn signs, and a free concert coming up in Calgary on September 20. Yet according to Elections Alberta's own public register, it has raised exactly zero dollars.

Every other serious group in this referendum reports. Let Alberta Decide reports $484,988.95. Alberta's Voice, $152,421.06. Vote to Stay, a federalist group, $97,791.29. Our own Alberta's Choice, $35,937.95, to the penny. Forever Canadian: $0.00.

That's why we hired Chad Williamson, our most successful litigator. On July 24 he filed a five-page demand letter, a ten-page formal legal complaint and 226 pages of supporting evidence. You really have to see it — read it for yourself.

Elections Alberta acknowledged the complaint on July 28, assigned it file number 2026-0280, and said "a representative may contact you in the future." Then nothing. The law says the Election Commissioner must either investigate or refuse and tell the complainant why. Our deadline of September 1 passed without a word. He has done neither.

Meanwhile, Mr. Lukaszuk told the Globe and Mail that Elections Alberta wrote him a letter saying his group doesn't have to report contributions because it "isn't promoting a position in the referendum." He won't show the letter. Elections Alberta won't comment. His lawn signs say CHOOSE UNITY. We don't know if that letter exists. Our court application asks Elections Alberta to produce it — or to confirm in writing that it doesn't.

Rebel News' Sheila Gunn Reid has seen the double standard first-hand. On July 18 in Lethbridge, our pro-Alberta group, Alberta's Choice, happened to be in the exact same park as Forever Canadian, doing the same things — signs, flags, collecting donations. Only one of them reports that activity the way the law requires. Guess which one.

Let's be clear about what we're asking the court for. We are not asking it to punish Forever Canadian, which isn't a party to the case. We're asking for an order lawyers call mandamus: make Elections Alberta decide our complaint — investigate, or refuse and say why — within seven days, and before October 19. Decide. That's it. Just don't run out the clock until the vote is over.

This is like a hockey game where the ref calls every hook and slash against one team and lets the other do whatever it wants. Nobody would call that fair. Why should a referendum on Alberta's future face a lower standard?

Years ago, Elections Alberta investigated Rebel News over Sheila Gunn Reid's book, Stop Notley — arguing that a book critical of the then-premier, sold during an election period, counted as unregistered political advertising. We fought it, and we've paid penalties before over technicalities like this. So we're not asking for a free pass now. We're asking for one-tier justice — the same rules, applied the same way, to everyone.

But Chad doesn't work for free, and an emergency court application — a full judicial review, two sworn affidavits and a hearing before October 19 — isn't cheap. Nobody else in Alberta was going to do this. If you believe this referendum deserves equal enforcement, please help pay the legal bill.

Help us demand fairness — we deserve it, and so do you.

Read the court documents

Originating Application for Judicial Review (filed September 10, 2026)

Urgent Request to the Court of King's Bench (filed September 10, 2026)

Affidavit of Lyndon Dunkley, Chief Financial Officer of Alberta's Choice (filed September 10, 2026)

Letters of service to Elections Alberta, the Minister of Justice and Forever Canadian (September 9, 2026)

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