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Originally Posted by Wolven
Zero. They do not have a petition to sign.
1) There cannot be two petitions around the same topic and the Forever Canada one is locked in.
2) The 'ding dong' petition had to go to court to be reviewed because it is unconstitutional.
Even if the court says they are okay to go ahead, they cannot do so because the other question is in place. With 456K signatures, I think it is very likely that they break the 296K threshold which would then lock in the Forever Canada question as the only question that can be asked on the topic of Alberta's relationship with Canada.
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Basically their only hope would be for a judge to declare that their petition isn't on the same topic as this one. If that doesn't happen this effectively locks out the separatists from pursuing this avenue for the next 6 years.
Frankly, I think they might have trouble getting the signatures anyways. The petition is set for judicial review next week (I think?). So call it say three days for oral arguments, a weekend to relax, and a few more for the judge to examine, determine, and write a verdict we're looking at Mid-November at the earliest before they can start collecting signatures. These goobers really gonna spend the holidays trudging along rural roads in the cold heart of a Canadian Winter to collect enough signatures for a petition that might not even be allowed to go to a vote per above? This is at best a 70-30 issue and they're on the 30 side of it.
They can try to spin it all they want... this just punted their issue 6 years down the line.
