Sandi Hallgren 🟦 retweeted
My brother, who has been watching the Alberta referendum from overseas, sent me this today. I don’t know if these are his words or originally someone else’s but they make total sense considering what we have all witnessed the past four months.
“I'm not convinced a democracy is the best form of governance. It has a fatal flaw.
A person who has spent their entire life studying the issues has the same voting power as a fool who knows nothing. The uneducated far out number the intelligent and are swayed easily with sweet words and manipulation. It's a system that favours the popular vote as opposed to common sense.
Unfortunately I don't know a better alternative…”
Sandi Hallgren 🟦 retweeted
Les Albertains ont participé à un référendum et ils ont voté sur neuf questions déterminantes pour l’avenir de l’Alberta.
Outre le fait que la tenue de cet exercice démocratique n’a pas du tout causé le cataclysme qu’on nous annonce lorsqu’on prononce au Québec le mot référendum, le message qu’ils envoient à Ottawa ne peut pas être plus clair : le Canada, tel qu’il est, ne fonctionne pas et le statu quo ne passe plus.
Au-delà du choix fortement médiatisé ce matin de demeurer dans la fédération, et même si le décompte se poursuit, tout indique que les électeurs albertains ont également appuyé huit des neuf questions réclamant davantage de pouvoirs pour leur province sur des enjeux qui vont de l’immigration à la nomination des juges des tribunaux supérieurs.
Voici certaines des neuf questions:
1. Êtes-vous favorable à ce que le gouvernement de l’Alberta exerce un contrôle accru sur l’immigration?
Oui: 54,8%
Non: 45,2%
5. Êtes-vous favorable à ce que le gouvernement de l’Alberta adopte une loi obligeant les électeurs à fournir une preuve de citoyenneté canadienne, comme un passeport, un certificat de naissance ou une carte de citoyenneté, pour pouvoir voter lors d’une élection provinciale en Alberta?
Oui: 63,8%
Non: 36,2%
6. Êtes-vous favorable à ce que le gouvernement de l’Alberta collabore avec les gouvernements d’autres provinces qui le souhaitent afin de modifier la Constitution canadienne pour que les juges des cours du Banc du Roi et des cours d’appel provinciales soient nommés par les gouvernements provinciaux plutôt que par le gouvernement fédéral?
Oui: 51,6%
Non: 48,4%
7. Êtes-vous favorable à ce que le gouvernement de l’Alberta collabore avec les gouvernements d’autres provinces qui le souhaitent afin de modifier la Constitution canadienne pour abolir le Sénat fédéral, dont les membres ne sont pas élus ?
Oui: 53,4%
Non: 46,6%
8. Êtes-vous favorable à ce que le gouvernement de l’Alberta collabore avec les gouvernements d’autres provinces qui le souhaitent afin de modifier la Constitution canadienne pour permettre aux provinces de se retirer des programmes fédéraux qui empiètent sur leurs champs de compétence, notamment en matière de santé, d’éducation et de services sociaux, sans perdre les fonds fédéraux qui y sont associés, afin de pouvoir les utiliser dans leurs propres programmes sociaux?
Oui: 48,9%
Non: 51,1%
Pour cette dernière question où le « non » l’emporte, soit celle sur le pouvoir dépensier du fédéral, le résultat est extrêmement serré. C’est un signal important. Presque 50% des électeurs y voient un problème.
Les Albertains viennent donc de démontrer, hors de tout doute, qu’ils adhèrent au consensus déjà largement partagé au Québec. Comme au Québec, ils constatent que la fédération canadienne est un carcan qui les empêche de placer leurs priorités au cœur de leurs propres politiques publiques, afin de répondre à leurs propres besoins. Ils font le pari qu’un mandat fort de faire bouger les choses pourra mener à ces changements à l’intérieur de la fédération canadienne, ce qui n’est pas sans faire penser à ce que la CAQ a fait miroiter aux Québécois au cours des huit dernières années. Une approche qui a mené qu’à des refus et des reculs pour le Québec.
Le premier ministre Mark Carney devra donc prendre acte que les Albertains remettent désormais en question, comme l’ont fait les Québécois avant eux, l’ordre constitutionnel canadien et les abus de pouvoir du régime fédéral dans les champs de compétences.
Le gouvernement fédéral, de plus en plus interventionniste, non seulement intervient toujours davantage dans les affaires des provinces, au mépris de ses propres règles constitutionnelles, mais prend également des décisions qui vont directement à l’encontre des intérêts de celles-ci.
Le nouveau gouvernement du Québec s’assurera que le message soit compris à Ottawa. Il sera prêt à collaborer avec les gouvernements des autres provinces qui arriveront au même constat que les Albertains et les Québécois : un changement s’impose.
Nous saluons au passage cette démarche démocratique, sur le fond et sur la forme. L’exercice a été réalisé avec professionnalisme, calmement et avec respect, ce qui est tout à l’honneur des Albertains.
Ils ont démontré qu'il n'y a rien à craindre de s'exprimer par voie référendaire.
Photo: Adrian WYLD, La Presse Canadienne
She was 8 for 9 bozo. You sound like Trump saying a win isn’t a win, and the questions were stacked against the feds. Take the same referendum to Ontario and you’d get vastly different results.
Sandi Hallgren 🟦 retweeted
Replying to @jengerson
Your smugness is embarrassing. Do you say this about Quebec?
I agree. The referendum confirmed that Albertan’s have legitimate grievances with Ottawa, and if not for this referendum, the Liberals and the media would have continued to say that the *grievances* are just Conservative talking points that don’t reflect the feelings of its citizens.
Danielle Smith is the big winner of Alberta’s referendum night, by Noah Alter.
READ MORE: trendingpolitics.ca/opinion/…
Sandi Hallgren 🟦 retweeted
1-in-4 Albertans voted for independence. That is a clear win for the federalists, but it is can no long be dismissed as a fringe-minority by the political establishment.
The Alberta government won a mandate to pursue constitutional reform. However unlikely this is to succeed, they should be given a fair chance and our support.
Only if - after sufficient time & a good faith effort - does this fail, should consideration be given again to another referendum.
Today’s result put Alberta on the map.
EDITORIAL: Independence loses for now — Albertans demand constitutional changes westernstandard.news/opinion…
Sandi Hallgren 🟦 retweeted
Massive differences between advance votes and election day votes on all these questions.
Question 6 is 32-68 in advance, but 69-31 on election day!
Sandi Hallgren 🟦 retweeted
Smith got a mandate on her 4 immigration questions.
Albertans are resisting the invasion and their replacement.
Sandi Hallgren 🟦 retweeted
Louisette , why don't you start by deleting your X account that's owned and operated by Elon and just stick with cat memes on Facebook ?
Can we please cancel Elon Musk’s contracts with Canada? We know his links to the US president. His tech resulted in compromised Ukraine drones. We have the ability to avoid such threats by building Canadian infrastructure and tech here for and by the people who actually live here. We should be investing in our own national security. We should also make sure to track our own tech so it doesn’t enable wars or organized criminals to create further risks. @MarkJCarney @ElizabethMay @avilewis @yfblanchet @PierrePoilievre @DavidMcGuinty @DLeBlancNB @CDS_Canada_CEMD @ChiefsofOntario @fordnation @MaritStiles @MikeSchreiner @JohnFraserOS @FP_Champagne @AFN_Updates @ChiefsofOntario
Sandi Hallgren 🟦 retweeted
Alberta’s separation talk dates back more than a century. Tyler Dawson, Globe & Mail content/opinion editor, notes that “shortly after Alberta joined confederation, there’s this real sense that the province was treated poorly by Ottawa,” with a 1911 book already raising secession. The idea resurfaced under Social Credit in the 1930s, then “really comes into its own” during Pierre Trudeau’s National Energy Program, when separatist parties took about 12 percent of the vote in 1982
The pattern tracks federal politics. “You do not see a meaningful separatist movement in Alberta when Stephen Harper is Prime minister,” Dawson says, but Liberal governments have repeatedly driven alienation that “morphed into separatist sentiment.” Even after Mark Carney reversed some Trudeau-era policies, “there’s still this feeling that Alberta was treated really, really poorly in the last 11 years,” giving the movement its strongest mainstream foothold in decades
Provincial leaders have responded differently. Jason Kenney “really just had no time for it,” while Danielle Smith has been “quite a bit more willing to accommodate this conversation,” calling the current referendum and easing the rules. Dawson expects the vote to leave separatism “a permanent part of Alberta’s political culture,” requiring both the UCP and Ottawa to treat the province’s grievances more seriously going forward
Dawson's book, The Republic of Alberta: An Idea That Won’t Go Away was published in April 2026 @tylerrdawson
Sandi Hallgren 🟦 retweeted
I was a guest on a French CBC talk show just a few minutes ago.
I got my message across, but listening to the 3 "experts" from Quebec tell viewers how Albert can't succeed without Canada was almost more than I could stomach.
The Laurentian elite are really threatened by us, and they will do anything to get us to fail.
Alberta independence is the only path forward.
Sandi Hallgren 🟦 retweeted
Albertans should shut up and be grateful for what they have, according to Kathy Norstrom, a BC resident.
Sandi Hallgren 🟦 retweeted
I'm from Ontario , I hate to see the Albertans go , they are great examples of a true Canadian and good all around people , like family.
They've been disrepected far too fucking long .
I respect their decision .
Sandi Hallgren 🟦 retweeted
Kate Harrison on Carney’s Alberta pitch: “I think it was important for the prime minister to be out in Alberta last week making the pitch to Albertans. I think that he undermined that pitch by casting judgment on the other nine votes… He is casting judgment on a question that’s being put to Albertans before Albertans have had their say, and he did not do that before Quebecers went to the polls.”
She added that the off-the-cuff remark “did more damage than it did good,” especially if Carney offers Quebec powers he withholds from Alberta @KatlynHarrison
Sandi Hallgren 🟦 retweeted
Justin Ling’s career is built on the lie that weapons were seized by the police when they confiscated abandoned big rigs in Ottawa, during the Freedom Convoy, but other than that, he’s a totally trustworthy professional journalist! 😎
Justin Ling column: Alberta's referendum is built on lies, damned lies and hubristics thestar.com/opinion/star-col… via @torontostar
Sandi Hallgren 🟦 retweeted
🇨🇦🤥🌹⚜️ : Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says Mark Carney lies to groups of people, depending on which audience he is speaking to.
She admits it's irritating, but says Carney does it to move opinion towards a goal he wishes to achieve.
A man who lies to everyone, should be trusted by no one.
Sandi Hallgren 🟦 retweeted
Maybe he should have spent a little less time in Davos and a little more time in Didsbury.
“I’ve never seen a prime minister who’s facing as many challenges simultaneously.” Alberta’s separatist referendum is just one issue for Mark Carney, “The Intelligence” hears economist.com/podcasts/2026/…
Sandi Hallgren 🟦 retweeted
"Don't be fooled by the idea you can send a message with your vote."
Read that again. A prime minister, in a democracy, telling you your vote isn't a message.
Your vote is the ONLY message you get. That's the whole deal. That's democracy.
What he means is: your vote counts when it's the one he wants. Vote his way and it's "vote like Canada depends on it." Vote your conscience and it's "a dangerous bluff."
He doesn't want your voice. He wants your obedience.





























