Danielle Smith promises Alberta separation referendum if signatures warrant (globalnews.ca)

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[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 14 points 4 days ago

Part of me wants to get it over with so we can answer the referendum with 95% telling her to go swivel, and hopefully put this nonsense to bed once and for all.

The other part of me dreads what shenanigans she'd get up to trying to distort that number.

[-] marble@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 days ago

Just a warning from a Brit: that's what we thought would happen with the Brexit referendum, but then we fucked it up.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 6 points 3 days ago

The opinion polls for Brexit were a lot closer to 50/50 than Alberta separatism is.

[-] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

I understand but I wouldn't trust this either. She's shown she'll go to extreme lengths to get what she/the far right wants and it's a lot easier to push that at a provincial level than at a federal one, I think.

[-] DriftingLynx@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

In the case of a referendum I'd be far more worried about the well funded right-wing disinformation apparatus that will kick it's grift into high gear.

Brexit was heavily influenced by the same machinery, except it's grown more sophisticated since that time.

[-] Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

We couldn't even vote to do away with daylight savings time...NO ONE WANTS DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME BUT ALBERTANS VOTES TO KEEP IT. Zero faith in Albertans to make the right call on this.