Elections Alberta said Dec. 22 that it has approved a petition question regarding Alberta seceding from Canada and becoming an independent nation.
The petition question was submitted by the Alberta Prosperity Project (APP) group, which has until early January to put in place a financial officer and then begin collecting enough signatures in order for its proposed question to become a provincial referendum.
The proposed petition asks a yes or no question on the issue, namely: “Do you agree that the province of Alberta should cease to be a part of Canada to become an independent state?”
APP CEO Mitch Sylvestre, who is a constituency association president for the province’s ruling United Conservative Party (UCP), will have four months after appointing a financial officer to gather just shy of 178,000 signatures in order for the petition to be put forward to Albertans in a referendum….