The premier’s tame ‘citizen initiative’ committee wants to talk today to Thomas Lukaszuk, proponent of the Forever Canadian petition – for five minutes!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/53393808

Thanks to her sneaky separatist manoeuvring, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith seems to have wedged herself between the proverbial rock and metaphorical hard place.

If she doesn’t do what the Alberta separatists in her United Conservative Party (UCP) demand and call a referendum using the wording on their Citizen Initiative petition – “Do you agree that the Province of Alberta should cease to be a part of Canada to become an independent state?” – they may very well depose her in an internal party coup.