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[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

For this petition to be approved, they need to collect 294,000 physical signatures from eligible Albertan voters over a 90 day period, those are incredibly onerous terms. Correct me if I'm wrong but at least it feels like purposeful obstruction to this passing.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It's 10% of the voting population. They really wanted their own separatist referendum to pass, so they did revise it downwards, but this one had already been submitted:

Since Lukaszuk's petition was submitted before the signature threshold for citizen-initiated referendums to get to ballots was lowered to 177,000 in early July, his petition will need to collect around 294,000 signatures from eligible voters over a 90-day period.

[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Okay that makes more sense. Still hard to believe it's come to this but heading the separatists off at the pass seems like the right call.