Lorne Gunter: Silly to whine about Alberta's ridiculously low referendum threshold
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Embarrassed are ya, Mitch? Mitch Sylvestre, leader of the separatist Stay Free Alberta movement, is complaining that Alberta’s citizen initiative process isn’t transparent enough, that it is unfaithful to the original purpose of the province’s citizen initiative law. Sylvestre wants the provincial legislature to review the law and make sure it easily allows any citizen […]
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Jul 31, 2026