Things are rapidly heating up in my part of the world right now. At least something is heating up because it’s freezing cold out here.

An Alberta court judge made two decisions yesterday putting the entire separatist referendum question in limbo. The first decision overturned Elections Alberta’s decision to approve the separatist petition revolving around the question. The judge also determined that Elections Alberta failed to take into account an earlier judicial decision that separation would violate indigenous treaty rights.

Danielle Smith immediately responded saying that the judge’s decision was incorrect and anti-democratic. She added,

We think that today’s decision by the court will deny opportunity to well over 300,000 Albertans to have their petition verified by Elections Alberta.”

Danielle, you seem to forget that the forever Canadian group got over 460,000 signatures on a question asking whether Alberta should stay in Canada..

Allan Adam, chief of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, challenged Smith

“If you want to show true leadership, you want to show grit, here’s an opportunity for Premier Smith and Canada, along with the First Nations, to sit down and start building this country and start developing some of the resources.”

Mitch Sylvestre, leader of the Stay Free Alberta, separatist group, believes that Smith has no choice, but to have the referendum

“I honestly believe that she will give us the vote and I really don’t believe that any government in her position could do anything else.”

We are in mid May. Even though it’s quite cold out here right now it is predicted to be a hot summer weatherwise. Things are also heating up on the separation question. There’s going to be a lot of inflammatory rhetoric floating about over the next few months, mostly from the separatist side and unfortunately by Danielle Smith and her own UCP party.

Albertans, who want to stay in Canada, and whether Danielle likes it or not, represent the majority of Albertans, want Mark Carney and his team Canada teammates to start getting involved now. They want to strike back at all the misinformation being spread by the separatists. However, it might be wise to still lay back a bit and watch the separatists go down in flames due to unforced errors like the leaking of voters information.

That’s all I have for today.