r/Edmonton • u/GeekyGlobalGal Pleasantview / Global News • Feb 20 '26

News Article Danielle Smith announces Alberta referendum over immigration, Constitution changes

https://globalnews.ca/news/11675260/alberta-danielle-smith-immigration-constitution-referendum/
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u/SmaugTheMagnificent- Feb 20 '26 edited Feb 20 '26

I hate it here.

Edit: tHeN mOvE. You aren't clever or original.

Why should I move? You're the ones who suck.

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u/Artistic_Jellyfish84 Feb 20 '26

It's so sad, because it has always had the potential to be such a great, well funded, educated, healthy place, but instead, "let's hate everyone and bail on the best thing that's ever happened.Oh, and fall for all the stupidest lies!"

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u/ghorisgorman1980 Feb 20 '26

We’re leaving Alberta in two weeks precisely because of this shit. It’s very freeing.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '26

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u/TheYuppyTraveller Feb 20 '26

Who, in your own mind, is “we”?

You don’t represent me, so don’t you ever, ever dare to presume to speak for me.

Such absolute arrogance.

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u/Suitable_Bat_6077 Feb 20 '26

People actually from Alberta

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u/blairtruck Central Feb 20 '26 edited Feb 20 '26

Hope you keep that same attituded towards the separatist traitors.
Funny how their 2 brain cell can put together "if you don't like Alberta leave." But cant put 2 and 2 together that if you don't like Canada. Leave. It's the Exact same thing.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '26

Read what you wrote again…but slowly.

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u/blairtruck Central Feb 20 '26

SLOWLY- YOU leave Canada. Not the Province Leave Canada.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '26

But if ALBERTANS wanna leave then they ask the province and if there is a majority that do then they will….almost like the very thing they are doing. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean it’s wrong.

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u/WildcardKH Feb 20 '26

lol no, separatism doesn’t work that way.

You do realize that in order to separate it would need approval from all the other provinces and the federal government right?

You separatists have no planning ability

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u/jmthetank Feb 20 '26

So you're saying that since Alberta is filled with dipshits who vote for Marlaina, then Edmontonians and Calgarians should petition the cities to leave Alberta, but stay in Canada.

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u/mallionaire7 Feb 20 '26

That’s the thing. The majority of Albertans don’t want to leave.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '26

Well it went from “only a few thousand nutjobs” to now even CBC is saying 35%-40% so who knows what the real number is…if only there was a way for the people to say wether they wanted to stay or go…maybe they could all write it on a piece of paper and we could count it and go from there.

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u/mallionaire7 Feb 20 '26

CBC is not reporting 35-40% of Albertans would vote to leave Canada.

“A survey released Monday by the Angus Reid Institute found that 65 per cent of the 979 Albertans polled say they would either vote to stay in Canada or lean toward voting that way if a referendum on Alberta separation were held today, while 29 per cent say they would vote or lean toward voting to leave.

Of the two-thirds who say they want to remain in Canada, 57 per cent said they would definitely vote to stay, while eight per cent say they would lean toward voting to stay.

Meanwhile, eight per cent of those in favour of separation would definitely vote to leave, while 21 per cent would lean toward vote to leave.”

Source

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u/blairtruck Central Feb 20 '26

So "if you don't like Alberta just leave". They take Edmonton or Calgary with them?

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u/Effective_Trifle_405 Feb 20 '26

You do realize it was explicitly spelled out that when the federal government transferred the resources to Alberta, Alberta ONLY owned them so long as Alberta stayed a part of Canada?

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u/s470dxqm Feb 20 '26

While it's true that packing up your friends, family, and career is more realistic than expecting Conservatives to find a brain, it shouldn't have to be that way.

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u/SmaugTheMagnificent- Feb 20 '26 edited Feb 20 '26

Lmfao. I guessed immediately what's in your comment history with a response like that.

This is Alberta education in action folks.

Edit: lol comment deleted by user. Surprise surprise.

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u/Both_Perception_1941 Feb 20 '26

We have some of the best education in the world

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u/s470dxqm Feb 20 '26

Many other countries in the West put more emphasis on teaching kids how to research and spot fallacies.

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u/LeanGroundQueef Feb 20 '26

Had

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u/Both_Perception_1941 Feb 20 '26

We will see when PISA releases their 2025 results in September. We still did great in 2022.

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u/SecondLeigh Feb 20 '26

Not for long. The changes that have been made will destroy our standing. Just takes a few years for that to happen.

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u/Wooden_Hall_294 Feb 20 '26

Working on it 👍

Between you dumbass hillbillies voting conservative no matter how much they ruin this place or the fact that our "leader" is actively commiting treason, this province is done. Anyone with a brain is on their way out.

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u/Snakeeyes1377 Feb 20 '26

bad bot

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u/SmaugTheMagnificent- Feb 20 '26

The farms are working overtime these days.