A group advocating for Alberta independence has released a proposed question it wants to put to a vote in a provincial referendum.
The Alberta Prosperity Project (APP), a sovereignty advocacy group, has released a potential question to be put in a separation referendum.
“Do you agree that the Province of Alberta shall become a Sovereign Country and cease to be a province of Canada?” reads the question, posted by the group on social media on May 12.
The group has been gauging Albertans’ intent to vote “yes” in a referendum for the province’s independence for a while, with 240,000 pledges as of May 12. The group aims to gather 1 million pledges to vote in favour of a referendum, more than the roughly 600,000 signatures a citizen-led petition would need under current legislation to qualify as a provincial referendum….