All Things AB Separatism (split fm Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???)

[brihard]

agreed, but also remember the government could end this right now too, the options for petitions is A cabinet makes it gov policy or B referendum. They could essentially put this all to bed by adopting forever Canada as official gov position. However Smith will not do that.

They could make it formal government policy, yes, but a succesful referendum petition would still result in a subsequent referendum. The easy button right now is to just hold a referendum on the Forever Canadian petition. A win for that would show that the door is shut on separation at present, and while they would likely still go through the motion with their own petition and referendum, the population and business community would already have the necessary answer for clarity and a predictable business climate.

Obviously I don’t believe the UCP will actually do that. The very last thing they want to do on this is actually commit one way or the other.

 

[MilEME09]

They could make it formal government policy, yes, but a succesful referendum petition would still result in a subsequent referendum. The easy button right now is to just hold a referendum on the Forever Canadian petition. A win for that would show that the door is shut on separation at present, and while they would likely still go through the motion with their own petition and referendum, the population and business community would already have the necessary answer for clarity and a predictable business climate.

Obviously I don’t believe the UCP will actually do that. The very last thing they want to do on this is actually commit one way or the other.

Not only that but there is a 5 year wait between referendums of similar questions. So by voting on forever canada, there cannot be a separation referendum for 5 years. Thats lot of tine to kill the movement off