Will it be 51st state? Canadian province of Alberta set for independence referendum | Eastern NC Now

Supporters of Canada's oil rich province of Alberta achieving independence from Canada  have secured the necessary signatures to require a provincial referendum on the issue later this year.  Although already passing the required number of signatures, they are collecting more and still have a month to go to do so. Conservative Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has pledged to make sure the referendum happens if the group achieved the signatures, and now they have.  Some believe it may lead to Alberta becoming the USA's 51st state.

Alberta has been the hotbed of the Wexit or Western Exit movement that seeks to take Alberta, along with Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia out of Canada.  The current Conservative government of Alberta has been a loggerheads with the national government over provincial authority.  Premier Smith pushed the Alberta Sovereignty Act through the provincial legislature and she signed it into law.  That act provides that the Alberta legislature can nullify any federal Canadian law or regulation within the priovince.  When it passed, Federal Prime Minister Trudeau threatened to take the issue to court, but Smith responded that if he did, she would have the Alberta legislature call an independence referendum.  Trudeau backed down.  The Alberta legislature has since voted to nullify a new set of federal climate regulations.

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