I would love to see a recall for every single UCP MLA, but I think it's going to be pretty much impossible to achieve even one. We just saw an unprecedented effort to get 456k signatures on a very unifying issue, which is about 26% of the votes cast in the last general (and about 15% of eligible voters). So 60% is gonna be so hard.
Even narrow margin ridings with low turnout:
Calgary-East: 44% turnout; UCP won 7123-6425; 8,593 required for recalls = 27% of the 32,250 eligible voters last time
Calgary-Cross: 50% turnout; UCP 7533-7019; 9,083 required = 30% 30400 eligible
Calgary-North: 57% turnout; UCP 7,927-7,798; 9,503 required = 34% of the 27900 eligible
But all three of these have been UCP for the last two terms.
As was Calgary Bow: 66% turnout; UCP 13,175-12,552; 16,006 required = 40% of 40,159 eligible
It might be better to direct our energy towards another citizen's initiative. Perhaps one for a public inquiry into the MHCare scandal, and another demanding a general election accompany any use of the NWC. Sadly I think both of these will fly over most people's heads compared to Forever Canadian.
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