If the American Right Wing is any indication, they will claim that the vote was rigged, despite being whooped by a WIDE margin, and scream it loudly forever. Really annoying.

Most MAGA funded initiatives are pretty dumb.

Fantasy fantasia for the trashablanca

I'm so thoroughly disappointed in my fellow Albertans on this front. Essentially, "yeah we want to remain a part of Canada, but we don't want immigrants or federal influence."

a lot of social friction

That's a polite way of discussing the racist dogwhistles behind most of the 9 questions.

what is this baking instructions?

Not sure where you're getting "only a third voted" when 43% of eligible voters had voted in the ADVANCED polls.

A third of polls have been counted.

Big difference.

Alberta also voted yes to the other nine, which means we voted to be as shitty and racist as possible while remaining.

Daylight saving time and abolishing a useless crony Senate is hardly racist.

Yep, somebody I know got scammed by a lawyer (they claimed to be a lawyer). They collected high paperwork fees from the immigrants and said it would take months for the government stuff to come back, once they had all the cash they disappeared.

Some employers with ties to other countries were sort of selling work visas. They'd get the LMIA permit (or whatever its called) and then get someone that wanted to come to Canada but couldn't immigrate any other way to pay 10's of thousands to come work that job.

Not until the US stops funding separatists and social media giants stop colluding with bad actors to encourage separatists.

They're already trying to spin this as an increase in support over previous years.

The GOP thugs would never let California leave. CA might be their whipping boy but they know how much money it makes for the country.

Californians and Texans are both Mexicans. One day you'll rejoin your people.

Might have more luck with an exchange of people, but I have a feeling that's not super appealing to those who might move. It also wouldn't fly, likely, since having people being angry and destabilizing in Canada benefits the US. Else, I'd expect to have already seen an offer by the US similar to the one given to white South Africans.

Abuse the Not Withstanding Clause.

It's pretty funny that knowing those were separation questions, people still voted for them.

Ya, theres an unhappy bunch that have been getting help from your current government to try and separate from Canada, amplified by Russian misinformation campaigns.

This was a vote to see if there should be a binding referendum.

Our former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was very proactive when it came to climate change. Alberta's biggest industry is oil and gas, so this pissed them off because they weren't making as much money as they could have been. Their oil and gas sectors also make a lot of money for the country and they are upset that some of it gets sent to Ottawa and redistributed. And Alberta doesn't have much say in federal elections because their population pales in comparison to Ontario and Quebec, who have more voting power to reflect that.

So the separatists gathered enough signatures to have a referendum but the courts ruled that down because it violates the agreements the government has with First Nations. So the premier changed it by making it a referendum to have a referendum, which bypassed this legal restriction.

The separatists groups have been collaborating with the Trump administration, who are backing the separatist side of the campaign which has caused a lot of anger here in Canada.

The separatist side is very unpopular, even within Alberta, and this is widely considered to be a waste of time and resources. But Alberta has very permissive laws around direct democracy, so the threshold for triggering a referendum on any topic is quite low, you just need a relatively small number of signatures.

Our Conservative Party keeps losing because they pick untenable and unpopular leaders.

Alberta is a very conservative province.

The Premier of Alberta decided to hold a referendum to have a referendum to separate because risking our country while another tries to annex us is a good idea for scoring political points and trying to get leverage.

This was pitched as a protest vote like brexit, with a large large dose of foreign interference from the United States.

No, Alberta isn't trying to seceed. Our quisling premier tried rabble-rousing with a referendum on whether to have a referendum to try to seceed and the separatists got crushed at the polls.

Try to be patient. Remember that the biggest problem is they are saturated every day with foreign news, foreign issues, foreign propaganda, and constant reinforcement often from their foreign employers. Be thankful that apparently a majority of us can see through the BS, and do what you can to help the rest recognize their neighbours aren't "out to get them" regardless of what the people on TikTok, YouTube, Twitch, and all the other American media are telling them. Hate, like they have, is a product of fear. They're cowards puffing up to make themselves seem scary because they are constantly terrified.

Rest of the questions don't reflect that so much...

That just shows that they still want to be Canadian, but they also want to be racists within Canada.