Electors lists contain personal information of every voter, here in Alberta. That includes name, address and telephone number. These lists are restricted to registered parties, individual ridings lists to MLA’s representing that riding and individual riding lists to registered party candidates, given specific conditions, during an Alberta provincial election or by election.
It is anticipated that there will be a referendum held this fall, asking Albertans whether they want to leave Canada. The referendum will revolve around a question developed by Alberta separatists. There was a separate question developed by Forever Canada, a pro Canada group. Under previous legislation, Forever Canada had to get at least 20% of the Alberta electorate to sign a petition supporting the question. Furthermore, Forever Canada had only 90 days to get the required amount of signatures on the petition.
Forever Canada ended up getting 460,000 votes that were verified by Elections Albertan. The petition was forwarded to the Alberta legislature where it has languished in committee. A committee that has only been convened one time.
The separatists wanted their own question for the referendum. Danielle Smith changed the legislation to make it easier for the separatists. The separatist only needed signatures from only 10% of Alberta voters. They also had 120 days to get this where the Forever Canada group had only 90 days.
Elections Alberta, legitimately provided the voters list, for the entire province, to the Republican Party of Alberta, a pro separation provincial party. Earlier this week, the Centurion Project, a pro separatist third-party group , lposted the entire list online for everyone to see. They leaked confidential information of over 2.9 million Alberta voters. Through a court order, Elections Alberta forced the Centurion Project to take the list down. They eventually complied.
However, the damage has been done. There is a police investigation on the matter.
The rest of Canada needs to take notice. The separatist groups here are very vocal and have no qualms of distributing misinformation. On some of sites that I visit on Facebook and on Threads the misinformation, they spread is scandalous. Right now, approximately 27% of all Alberta voters support separation. That number has remained static over the past few months, despite the efforts of the separatist a
But this is not going away. Given that Danielle Smith herself is supportive of a sovereign Alberta, within Canada, whatever that means, separatists will try to gather more steam.
For years, the Alberta separatist movement has been considered a fringe movement. That is no longer the case.
As a patriotic Canadian, we need to start fighting back.
That’s all I have for today.