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Question about the AB petition to stay in Canada (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca to c/alberta@lemmy.ca

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It's my understanding that a referendum petition is about the phrasing of the question that's presented to go on the referendum ballot.

The pro-Canada group "won" the right to petition for their question to go on the ballot as they submitted before the anti-Canada traitors could. Basically, stay in Canada vs leave Canada.

Am I just an idiot, or is the safest thing for AB to do is not sign regardless of who is asking? If this petition gets enough sigs all it means is that this will be the question asked on the ballot for referendum instead of the leave question right? But if it fails, there won't be a referendum at all.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me this is being proposed as a petition to stay in Canada, but it's really a petition to trigger a referendum with "stay in Canada" as the question instead of "leave Canada".

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[–] innerwar@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

I believe the question is being asked in earnest. I listened to the podcast the breakdown (the guy who’s broke the story by getting foips to shed light on aish scandal) he had the maker of the question on and he said his rationale is to make the question plain so as to not confuse voters. Polling is indicating the majority of Albertans want to stay so he intends to force it now, before they have a chance to give a bad question. I feel like I will sign it and trust we can vote to put this issue to bed.