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The support for separatism is soft in Alberta overall and about to weaken further now that Trump is threatening Canada’s trading rights, supply chain access, and Canadian content laws: our identity. Last week, Premier Smith has confirmed the referendum is not about “sending Ottawa a message” or “Letting Alberta Decide” but rather about separating Alberta from Canada in a binding way next Spring. Separating us for the United States: a failing empire, threatening its neighbour because it’s losing its grip on the world.

First, the United Conservative Party of Alberta Government will spend $130 million of your dollars for a 10-ballots-per-person, psych referendum proceeding on October 19 of this year.

Please remember to:

* Get your special ballot here: https://specialballot.elections.ab.ca/index/8400 and

* RSVP for Public Interest Alberta’s campaign launch in Calgary on September 1, 2026 at the Royal Canadian Legion #1 (116 7th Ave SE), doors open at 6:30 pm: https://www.albertareferendum2026.org/upcoming_events/.

Next, the UCP is due to conclude their second electoral boundary mapping exercise, promised for October 22. The boundaries they form very likely be heavily gerrymandered & unconstitutional, requiring even more taxpayer dollars to stop them through the courts. An effort remember, Albertans never asked for, since there was an Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission who was already tasked with providing new boundaries for the next election. In January, all commission members agreed upon 89 boundaries, until one member—a UCP representative—decided to issue the first-of-its-kind minority report which in turn overruled the majority report.

While this plays out, the UCP expects us to spend even more money to make Alberta’s exit official in the spring before they lose power and are unable to continue the US regime change operation. Between Hoekstra—remember to sendpetepacking.ca, if you haven’t already—and Bessant bragging about their involvement and interest in Alberta’s oil, gas, and separatist referendum, and the latest Security Watch Dog report, even Smith was forced to acknowledge who is behind the separatist agenda.

All the headlines read, “Russia-backed” accounts while the funding, faces, and objectives are fully American and of the fossil fueled kind, of this there can no longer be any doubt. Question: what have the Canadian oil and gas executives had to say about the referendum? Crickets—right?

Meanwhile in Quebec…

Parti Québécois (separatist) leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon announces his party will NOT explore separation until after Donald Trump leaves office because, “this unpredictability of the American administration will harm our process as well as the quality of the debat