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

Smith have to come to some resolution on that.

Could the federal government come to something that does make Daniel Smith happy on the pipeline front, but in exchange say, do you want to have a referendum on nine questions, that is, which he said he wanted to do, that are not separation on October 19th,

But the trade-off is you do not ask that other question.

Given the mess that the process is in, you do not ask it then or you ask it later.

But the dynamics between the federal government and the province of Alberta changed dramatically the second you add the separation question.

Why?

Because the prime minister has said at that point that the Clarity Act would kick in.

What is the Clarity Act, and why do I say it?

It might be something that the Parti Québécois would dream of having unfold during a Québec election campaign.

Basically, the Clarity Act says that on a question of separation, the federal government must approve the question that is going to be asked to make sure that it is clear enough.

and must decide whether it would accept the result on the basis of what percentage of the votes.

Now, after the Clarity Act was passed,

which was a way to give not only leverage to a future federal government in the case of another Quebec referendum, in this case, Alberta, but also to send a message to people interested in separation that it was going to be a bit harder to determine the circumstances of the question.

The last referendum question, by the way, was a paragraph long.

It was all but...

It wasn't clear in any way, shape or form.

You had to have a Google to see the references in it and Google back to what it actually meant.

But since then, the UK has had a referendum in Scotland.

And in that case, the Westminster Parliament did approve the question posed to Scottish voters, but it also agreed that if it carried that 50% plus one, there would be negotiations leading to independence for Scotland from Scotland.

from the UK.

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