Danielle Smith and the Debate Over an Alberta Separation Referendum

I'll show her the results from the 1980 Quebec referendum and the 1995 Quebec referendum and

now we're probably going to have another one in Quebec.

These things don't get settled by putting these questions to referendum.

It becomes a never-endum is what it does.

Are you as sure Lisa that it will be that disastrous for the premier?

She's withstood a lot of political tests in Alberta so far in being written off.

It's very interesting that largely, like if you look at the bigger electorate in Alberta,

she would win an even larger majority today than she did in the 2023 election.

But those separatists in her party, Janet Brown, that pollster says it's like 54% of

the party.

And even if she thinks she's satisfying them with this, they're all saying they're still

going to try and tear her down.

Right.

So let's take it a step further.

They tear her down.

She's got, what, two and a half years left in her mandate?

And they replace her with an avowed separationist as the premier who is going to be there for

two and a half years.

I mean, I don't really I can't really say say anything negative about what Danielle

Smith's doing right now.

I think she is just trying to toe the line in terms of having both sides be somewhat

happy about whether or not there's a referendum there.

You can't please everybody all the time.

I get that.

But she is at least trying.

And I don't necessarily think it's fair for us to beat up on her.

Now, Benzie's not beating up on her.

I've just been hearing other people beat up on her about this issue.

You know, in terms of the referendum, the other thing that I would just highlight, I

don't think it's particularly helpful for Centre Canadians to be telling Alberta what

they can and cannot do in terms of asking themselves a question.

This is what got us into this whole mess.

Would we say the same thing about Quebec?

Was our lead answer in the question on the referendum in Quebec, they shouldn't be having

one.

This is ridiculous.

You bet it wasn't.

And it shouldn't be that either when it comes to Alberta.

They got to sort themselves out.

We hope it goes the right way and we'll fight for Canada, including Alberta.