It’s my understanding that a referendum petition is about the phrasing of the question that’s presented to go on the referendum ballot.

The pro-Canada group “won” the right to petition for their question to go on the ballot as they submitted before the anti-Canada traitors could. Basically, stay in Canada vs leave Canada.

Am I just an idiot, or is the safest thing for AB to do is not sign regardless of who is asking? If this petition gets enough sigs all it means is that this will be the question asked on the ballot for referendum instead of the leave question right? But if it fails, there won’t be a referendum at all.

Please correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems to me this is being proposed as a petition to stay in Canada, but it’s really a petition to trigger a referendum with “stay in Canada” as the question instead of “leave Canada”.

  • Jack_Burton@lemmy.caOP
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    7 days ago

    It seems manipulative and disingenuous. “Sign this if you support AB staying in Canada” when in reality it’s “by signing this, if enough people sign, the question of voting on AB separation will go on the referendum ballot next year and this will be how the question is phrased”. They’re preying on patriotism to trigger a referendum.