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If [Smith] wanted a straight answer she’d ask a straight question.
Current question is designed to confuse.
Clarity Act will not apply to Alberta’s planned sovereignty vote, Carney say by Ian Bailey, May 26, 2026, The Globe and Mail
Prime Minister Mark Carney says the Clarity Act, which was passed after the last Quebec independence referendum, will not apply to Alberta’s planned sovereignty vote.
The Clarity Act says that any referendum on separation must have a clear question and would require a “clear majority” to facilitate separation.
Hours after Justice Minister Sean Fraser told reporters on Tuesday that his department was looking at the relevance of the legislation, Mr. Carney said he had secured an understanding that it did not apply to Alberta’s planned vote.
JFC. Carney has enabled traitor Smith and her separatists every fucking step of the way. Was it Harper who ordered Carney’s “understanding?” Trump? Kevin Roberts? The earth raping oil ‘n gas billionaires? Palantir via Cohere? Brookfield?
“As Prime Minister, I need to respect the advice of experts. I have just heard from the council of experts on the applicability of the Clarity Act and it does not apply on the question in Alberta,” Mr. Carney said in French during Question Period.Unfuckingbelievable. Carney’s such a crass liar, he lies like Smith.
Afterward, Mr. Carney told journalists that the Alberta referendum is not a Clarity Act issue because the question being asked of Albertans is what he described as “a question about a question,” and not a direct query on leaving Canada.Ya, but, Smith’s question is as unclear as it gets. If ever there was need for the Clarity Act, her intentionally muddled confusing question is it.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced last week that her government will add a question on sovereignty to an already scheduled referendum on Oct. 19 dealing with various issues. That question will ask voters whether Alberta should remain in Canada, or start the legal process to hold a binding, second referendum on separation.
Mr. Carney told journalists: “It’s explicit in the question that it’s not a binding referendum.”I bet Harper, Trump, Smith and Carney are all in on this traitorous bullshit together, aiding the fucking separatists to help the rich rape Alberta to her death.
Following Question Period, Mr. Fraser said the situation was now clearer.
“As the Prime Minister has just indicated, we have had a chance to review the question and the applicability of the Clarity Act and believe it would not apply in the circumstances given the nature of the question,” he said.another fucking lawyer .. JFC, another fucking traitor to Canada.
Emergency Management Minister Eleanor Olszewski, the only member of the federal cabinet from Alberta, was cautious Tuesday in her comments on the situation in her province.
She declined to specifically respond to a question about whether the Clarity Act applies to the question being posed by Ms. Smith in the fall.
“I think what I think about it isn’t so important. Like, for me to give an off-the-cuff response to that I think isn’t very helpful,” she told journalists as she arrived for the cabinet meeting earlier in the day.
A decision to trigger the Clarity Act would have been met with outrage in Quebec, where sovereigntist leaders have made clear they want Ottawa to butt out of Alberta’s referendum process.
“Good luck with that,” Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon told reporters in Quebec City on Tuesday when asked about the possibility of the law being applied.
The Alberta referendum will play out alongside Quebec’s provincial election campaign, set for Oct. 5. Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon, whose party has been leading in the polls for more than two years, has promised to hold his own referendum on independence within a first mandate.
Majority of party members likely to back Alberta separation, UCP president says
The Clarity Act was passed despite staunch opposition from Quebec, which in 2000 promptly countered with its own law. Bill 99 states that Quebeckers alone will decide their political future, and that a referendum victory requires only a simple majority of 50 per cent of valid votes plus one.
“I think the principle of self-determination will govern both Alberta and Quebec,” said Mr. St-Pierre Plamondonyet another fucking lawyer, warning against any “abuse of power” by Ottawa.
On Tuesday in Ottawa, Bloc Québécois House leader Christine Normandin called on Mr. Carney to repeal the Clarity Act, which she called “undemocratic.”
Stéphane Dion, the former Liberal minister who tabled the Clarity Act, wrote last week in La Presse that Ms. Smith’s question does not trigger the federal legislation, as it “does not contemplate unilateral secession.” But if a second referendum on separation were held, he wrote, Parliament would need to weigh in.
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This evening, the fuckers changed it to this, via same link:
Alberta’s sovereignty referendum prompts federal review of Clarity Act and this headline contracts this new version of the fucking article. WTF game is Carney trying to play?by Ian Bailey, May 26, 2026, The Globe and Mail
Alberta’s planned sovereignty vote has prompted the federal government to review whether the referendum question in the fall complies with the Clarity Act, says Justice Minister Sean Fraser.
Mr. Fraser told reporters in Ottawa that the assessment is currently being prepared for Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced last week that her government will hold a referendum in October asking voters whether Alberta should remain in Canada, or start the legal process to hold a binding, second referendum on separation.
Opinion: An ‘independent’ Alberta would be a way station on the path to 51st statehood
Mr. Fraser said the review will provide advice about whether the Oct. 19 referendum question satisfies the Clarity Act, which was enacted in 2000 following the 1995 Quebec sovereignty referendum. The Act says any referendum on separation must have a clear question and would require a clear majority to facilitate separation.
The Act has a “very clear requirement, no pun intended” that the question in a referendum be clear to voters that “their jurisdiction would be removed from Canada,“ Mr. Fraser told journalists as he arrived on Parliament Hill on Tuesday.
“There is obviously, as the Prime Minister pointed out, an element to this particular question that appears to be a question on a question.”I bet Carney drafted up the question with Smith to be as confusing as possible to fuck with Alberta voters’ minds, further farm rage and hate, with Harper doing the ultra confusing editing to make sure no one understands it.
Emergency Management Minister Eleanor Olszewski, the only member of the federal cabinet from Alberta, was cautious Tuesday in her comments on the situation in her province.
She declined to specifically respond to a question about whether the Clarity Act applies to the question being posed by Premier Smith in the fall.
“I think what I think about it isn’t so important. Like, for me to give an off-the-cuff response to that I think isn’t very helpful,” she told journalists.
“That’s a really important question and we will be discussing that with, you know, all seriousness in the days to come and we’ll absolutely get back to you on that.”