Why Alberta’s push for independence pales in comparison to Scotland’s in 2014

Why Alberta’s push for independence pales in comparison to Scotland’s in 2014

One day after the Liberal Party secured their fourth consecutive federal election victory, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith tabled legislation to change the signature threshold needed to put citizen-proposed constitutional questions on the ballot. She lowered it from the current 600,000 signatures to 177,000. Since the pro-independence Alberta Prosperity Project already claims to have 240,000 pledges in support of an Albertan sovereignty referendu…