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UPDATE: We went to court on September 14 — and the case is moving fast.

Rebel News has taken Elections Alberta to court over its handling of our complaint about Thomas Lukaszuk’s Forever Canadian campaign.

At Monday’s emergency hearing in Calgary, the judge directed our lawyer, Chad Williamson, to ask Associate Chief Justice Nixon for an expedited hearing. Our lawyers’ materials were due Wednesday, September 16. The other side has until Friday, September 18, to respond to the expedited hearing request.

That matters because Alberta votes on October 19. We don’t want Elections Alberta to simply run out the clock until after the votes are counted.

Here’s how we got here.

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. 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 our complaint without deciding it.

Forever Canadian is registered with Elections Alberta as a referendum third party advertiser. It runs a serious campaign: a Unity Bus touring the province, offices in Edmonton and Calgary, rallies, thousands of professional lawn signs, and concerts. Yet Elections Alberta’s own public register shows $0.00 in reported contributions.

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 at StopTheCheaters.com.

Elections Alberta acknowledged the complaint on July 28, assigned it file number 2026-0280, and said “a representative may contact you in the future.” Our deadline of September 1 passed without a decision.

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 we understand the law requires.

Let’s be clear about what this lawsuit is asking for.

We are not asking the court to punish Forever Canadian or decide that it broke the law. We’re asking the court to require Elections Alberta to deal with our complaint — investigate it, or refuse it and explain why — before the October 19 vote.

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 set of rules, applied the same way to everyone.

And now the legal fight is moving quickly.

Chad and his team are working on an accelerated timetable to get our materials before the court. That means a lot of legal work compressed into a very short period of time — and Rebel News is paying the bill.

An emergency court application isn’t cheap, and nobody else was going to bring it.

If you believe this referendum deserves one set of rules for everyone, please help us cover the legal costs of seeing this case through.

We started this fight. Now please help us see it through.

Read the court documents

Originating Application for Judicial Review (filed September 10, 2026 — PDF, 969 KB)

Urgent Request to the Court of King’s Bench (filed September 10, 2026 — PDF, 931 KB)

Affidavit of Lyndon Dunkley, Chief Financial Officer of Alberta’s Choice (filed September 10, 2026 — PDF, 2 MB)

Letters of service to Elections Alberta, the Minister of Justice and Forever Canadian (September 9, 2026 — PDF, 284 KB)

The original July 24 complaint: the demand letter (PDF, 99 KB), the formal complaint (PDF, 110 KB) and the 226-page exhibit compendium (PDF, 5.5 MB).

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