Alberta separatist group gets green light to collect referendum signatures
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Elections Alberta says Mitch Sylvestre and the Alberta Prosperity Project have from Saturday, Jan. 3 until May 2 to collect just under 178,000 signatures to qualify.
Alberta’s election agency has fired the starter’s pistol on the race to collect enough names for a referendum on the province quitting Canada.
Elections Alberta announced Friday that Mitch Sylvestre and the Alberta Prosperity Project have from Saturday until May 2 to collect just under 178,000 signatures to qualify.
“Citizen initiative petition signature sheets have been issued,” Elections Alberta said in a statement.
Elections Alberta had already announced before Christmas that it had approved the referendum question.
But it said the group could not collect signatures until it had finalized details, including hiring a chief financial officer.
The question seeks a yes or no answer to: “Do you agree that the province of Alberta should cease to be a part of Canada to become an independent state?”
Sylvestre could not be immediately reached for comment.
He has previously said a referendum is needed because of federal government restrictions on oil development alongside dim hopes for electoral change in Ottawa.
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