Chantal Hebert

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584 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 5 Jun

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The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge · Good Talk -- Do Canadians Care About Alberta? · 8 May 2026 podcast

It actually applies to all provinces who want to hold referendums on this.

on separation.

And before anybody says, well, this is great, it means the federal government is going to be doing something about this.

I'll just point out, and we will come back to that, that if this is where it's going, it's going to be a very fragile period for the federal government to be leading the argument on the Clarity Act against the backdrop of a Quebec election campaign next fall.

No criminal interference.

That is what the RCMP looks for.

And I'm not doubting that they didn't find it, but the line for discovery for the RCMP is a bit different than the line for discovering manipulation and disinformation.

It's very hard to take anything that happened in the lead up to 95 in Quebec and apply it to what's going on in Alberta at this point.

The 95 referendum was totally driven by a collective sense of grievance after the Meech Lake failure.

and the refusal from a large section of the rest of Canada to recognize what is obvious to most Quebecers, i.e.

that Quebec is different by language, by culture, and that that is a good thing that should be recognized in the Constitution.

So we are somewhere else altogether.

I think Mr. Kenney's goal, ideally, would be to avoid that referendum altogether.

And that is another major difference.

The current government of Alberta does not have an electoral mandate to hold a referendum on separation.

The Quebec government of the time did.

It campaigned on having this vote, and then it held that vote.

certainly would not have missed Danielle Smith campaigning for office by saying, if you elect us, we will be having a referendum on separation.

So the messiness of what's happening in Alberta complicates matters for Federalists in the sense that it is not clear that the government can articulate the position

one way or another without blowing itself apart.

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