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#-3 · 03-23-2026, 03:00 PM

I still think people are under estimating how big of a number 177,000 would be

By most measures there are ~2,500,000 Albertans who strongly support Forever Canada, and they reached 20% of those people.

If the freedumb movement reaches the same level of outreach with their strong support that would be about 80,000

I think there are factors that affect both campaigns favorably and negatively.

I think Forever Canada benefits from good weather, they benefited from a more organized effort, it was easy to find out where they would be, and they were at the same place, same time week after week. They benefit from having to hit a relatively low number of their overall support base to reach their goal, in densely populated areas.

Freedumb for the stupid, is benefitting from a friendlier set of rules, they benefit from having individuals who are more energetic, A willingness to skirt the rules, the media attention that comes with being a loud train wreck that people want to stare at.

I really think if they do have much more than 80,000 signatures, it is very likely an audit could find problems like rampant duplication of signatures... Although I'd be surprised if we don't see things just rammed through without a high quality audit. I'm interested to see if I will be proven wrong.

03-23-2026, 03:00 PM	#758
#-3 Franchise Player Join Date: Mar 2008 Exp:	I still think people are under estimating how big of a number 177,000 would be By most measures there are ~2,500,000 Albertans who strongly support Forever Canada, and they reached 20% of those people. If the freedumb movement reaches the same level of outreach with their strong support that would be about 80,000 I think there are factors that affect both campaigns favorably and negatively. I think Forever Canada benefits from good weather, they benefited from a more organized effort, it was easy to find out where they would be, and they were at the same place, same time week after week. They benefit from having to hit a relatively low number of their overall support base to reach their goal, in densely populated areas. Freedumb for the stupid, is benefitting from a friendlier set of rules, they benefit from having individuals who are more energetic, A willingness to skirt the rules, the media attention that comes with being a loud train wreck that people want to stare at. I really think if they do have much more than 80,000 signatures, it is very likely an audit could find problems like rampant duplication of signatures... Although I'd be surprised if we don't see things just rammed through without a high quality audit. I'm interested to see if I will be proven wrong.