Warning! Is your voice about to be silenced?

I’m sure you are all aware of the many newsworthy events that have happened in the last few months.  We’ve had Mark Carney shift Canada’s alliance with a democratic country like the United States to now form a strategic alliance with China.  We have Chinese Communist Police Stations operating within Canada.  In Alberta reports were received where Chinese Communist Troops were seen guarding Chinese owned sites in Fort McMurray.  We now have had the Marxist Liberals under Carney changing immigration laws so that the Liberals can fill the ranks of Canada’s military with trained foreign soldiers.  Don’t be surprised if these are from China or the IRGC from Iran.  Whoever they import, they will be enemies of Canadians, and especially Albertan’s.

While the petition for independence is well under way, I encourage every member of the Independence Party to help gather signatures as we need as many Albertans to sign as possible.  Keep talking to your families and friends about the benefits of becoming our own nation.  But I do have a warning. 

The independence movement needs well over 1.5 million and preferably 2 million signatures to send Danielle Smith a message.  We are at risk of having our voices ignored while our Premier dooms Albertans to a life of hell being stuck in a Marxist dictatorship.  I think every Albertan heard the story of how Elections Alberta took Mitch Sylvestre to court so the court could determine if the question he was proposing was constitutional.  I don’t believe this action was coincidence or was something the Chief Electoral Officer thought up on their own.

So what happened to the court case?  Very simply, Danielle Smith’s government amended the Citizen Initiative Act using Bill 14 which pulled the rug out from under the court hearing the matter last December by amending the Citizen Initiative Act.  This however didn’t prevent Justice Feasby from rendering a decision that the question put forward by Mitch Sylvestre on Alberta independence contravened sections 1 through 35.1 of the Constitution Act, 1982.  The decision however, ended up being of no effect as a result of the amendment made to the Citizen Initiative Act in Bill 14 by the government.

What most people don’t know is that at the same time, Alberta’s Justice Minister slipped in another amendment, not to the Citizen Initiative Act but to the Referendum Act, specifically to sections 4 and 5.2.  The Act before the amendment read as follows:

4(2)  If the results of a referendum are binding, the government that initiated the referendum shall, as soon as practicable, take any steps within the competence of the Government of Alberta that it considers necessary or advisable to implement the results of the referendum.

5.2(2)  If the results of a referendum are binding, the government that initiated the referendum shall, as soon as practicable, take any steps within the competence of the Government of Alberta that it considers necessary or advisable to implement the results of the referendum.

The government clearly fearing a majority of Albertans voting in favour of the referendum question, added subsection 3 to both sections which reads:

(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), if the results of a referendum are binding, the government that initiated the referendum is not required to implement the results of the referendum if doing so would contravene sections 1 to 35.1 of the Constitution Act, 1982.

This change was clearly done with the intent to make your voice as an Albertan irrelevant.  It clearly says no matter how many Albertans want independence, Danielle Smith’s government can ignore the referendum results.  She will blame the failure of the referendum on the court to deflect from her own plan.  Additionally, the federal Clarity Act states that the question on a referendum must be clear.  Danielle Smith’s plan to put multiple questions on a fall referendum will muddy the water so the House of Commons can decide the question on independence wasn’t clear and thereby ignore the results.

We are going to be left in a position where Albertans need a political party that supports independence and is prepared to make a declaration of independence for the sake of Albertans.  The UCP and NDP are clearly not the choices we need to lead Alberta to freedom!

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Ron Robertson

Interim Leader, The Independence Party of Alberta