While it's a good point to state that the best outcome would be that neither petition passes, I think we would have to hope against everything we've seen so far for it to come to that. The fact that the separatists were still trying to submit their petition despite the fact that Lukaszuk's petition is basically the same thing says that, at the very least, they don't want any petition and/or referendum on Alberta separatism to have an anti-separatism slant.

[–] Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's the thing though, let them. They won't get 177k signatures and the petition will fail. Instead, now there's a good chance that this one will get more than 177k, which means the separatists get their referendum. Whether voting yes means leave or yes means stay, leaving is still up for a vote with either petition.

Just don't sign it, we've already won so why risk losing it when we don't have to? This new language is just baiting Albertans to get a referendum on something that wouldn't pass the petition stage to begin with.

Literally, all Albertans have to do is just not sign the damn thing and there won't even be a referendum.

[–] Warehouse@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The threshold for the petition only requires about 6 percent of the electorate to actually sign the petition, so you'd only need about a third of the people strongly in favour of separatism. That's why the threshold for the referendum was lowered this much. In my opinion, it basically makes the petition passing inevitable. It certainly could be that the 30 percent who are slightly/strongly in favour of separatism are actually an overrepresentation in the polls due to various reasons.

[–] Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

I hear ya, it's a shitty situation regardless. Fingers crossed for AB.