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<p><a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/smith-lowers-bar-for-alberta-referendum-with-separatism-sentiment-emerging">Danielle Smith lowers bar for Alberta referendum with separatism sentiment emerging</a></p>
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<p>OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she’ll make it easier for citizens to initiate a referendum on the province’s future in Canada, after warning that a Liberal win in Monday’s election could spur <a href="https://x.com/ABDanielleSmith/status/1902787610608800048">a groundswell of support</a> for Alberta separatism.</p>
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<p>Smith said on Tuesday that a <a href="https://www.assembly.ab.ca/assembly-business/assembly-dashboard?legl=31&session=1&billinfoid=12082&anchor=g12082%C2%A7ionb=d12082#g12082">newly tabled elections bill</a> will give everyday Albertans a bigger say in the province’s affairs.</p>
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<p>If passed, the new law would dramatically lower the number of signatures needed to put a citizen-proposed constitutional referendum question on the ballot, setting a new threshold of 10 per cent of general election turnout — or just over 175,000, based on Alberta’s last provincial election in 2023.</p>
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<p>Smith said on Tuesday that the current threshold of 20 per cent of registered voters, roughly 600,000 signatures, is far too high, making citizens’ initiatives virtually impossible to move forward.</p>
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<p>“You want a bar that’s high, but you don’t want a bar that’s impossible to achieve… so we wanted to try to create something that was a little bit more reasonable.” said Smith.</p>
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<p>Smith noted that there haven’t been any citizen-initiated referendums <a href="https://www.canlii.org/en/ab/laws/stat/sa-2021-c-c-13.2/latest/sa-2021-c-c-13.2.html">under the existing threshold</a>, set in 2022.</p>
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<p>“(T)here is a citizen initiative referendum process that if citizens want to put a question on the ballot and get enough of their fellow citizens to sign that petition, then those questions will be put forward… I don’t want to pre-judge what a question might be,” said Smith.</p>
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<p>Smith previously announced she’d be <a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/premier-plans-post-election-panel-to-gauge-albertans-appetite-for-referendum/">setting up a post-election panel</a> that will give citizens a chance to put forward potential referendum questions.</p>
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<p>Polls heading into Monday’s federal election showed that as many as <a href="https://thehub.ca/2025/03/21/hub-exclusive-while-separatism-sentiment-grows-in-western-canada-84-percent-of-quebeckers-say-independence-for-their-province-is-unlikely/">three in 10 Albertans</a> would vote for Alberta to leave Canada if the Liberals won a fourth term in office.</p>
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<p><img alt="Danielle Smith" src="https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/dsc_0682_295273284.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=288&sig=2KBNek-9KzI4-igSS8ljng" /></p>
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<p>Premier Danielle Smith announces proposed changes to several pieces of democratic process legislation at the Alberta Legislature on April 29, 2025. Photo by Shaughn Butts/Postmedia</p>
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<p>Take Back Alberta founder David Parker said on Wednesday that his online petition for a referendum on Alberta sovereignty had collected <a href="https://x.com/DavidJPba/status/1917579648122093634">more than 80,000 signatures</a> in less than 36 hours.</p>
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<p>Parker said he expected to hit the 200,000 mark by the end of the week.</p>
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<p>Karamveer Lalh, an Edmonton-based lawyer who helped write the first version of <a href="https://www.canlii.org/en/ab/laws/stat/sa-2021-c-c-13.2/latest/sa-2021-c-c-13.2.html">the citizens’ initiatives law</a>, said that he expects to see other grassroots campaigners test the waters in the coming weeks.</p>
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<p>“You ideally want the movement and infrastructure to be in place before you actually go forward with trying to go through the petition process,” Lalh told the National Post.</p>
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<p>“Basically, you want to be confident that you’ll be able to get the signatures to cross the threshold before you’re officially on the clock.”</p>
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<p><em>rmohamed@postmedia.com</em></p>
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