Kathleen Petty

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204 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 20 May

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The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge · Reporter's Notebook -- Kathleen Petty and The Real Alberta Story · 20 May 2026 podcast

The NDP is suggesting it.

I heard it from people last week that this was going to happen, the belief being that this is what she's going to propose goes on the ballot on October 19th.

You know, we have no way of knowing for sure, but it allows her then to put forward a question that isn't a question that the government has put forward.

Instead, it's a question being put forward based on signatures from Albertans.

And she often sort of combines the two efforts to say over 700,000 Albertans have said that they want to be able to express their view on Alberta's place in the Federation.

And therefore, I feel compelled to allow people to express that view because she's an ardent, ardent supporter of what she calls direct democracy.

Well, I mean, a lot of people ask that question.

She would argue that with this MOU, she's been negotiating different pieces of it and it's not done yet.

But we now have an agreement on carbon pricing that that is her sort of exhibit A. And it's a big, you know, capital A, exhibit A that.

she wants Canada to work, that she believes Alberta can thrive in Canada with a cooperative federal government and cooperative federalism.

But, you know, on the other side of that, when you introduce legislation that says, you know, calls for a sovereign Alberta within a united Canada, there are any number of ways to interpret that.

I mean, just look up

Sovereign in the dictionary.

What does it mean?

It means independent, right?

And so, you know, where you sort of exert all the power and you make all the decisions and federalism doesn't work exactly that way, as we know.

So, you know, certainly the provincial NBP call her a separatist.

And as we found out this week, David Eby clearly thinks she's a separatist.

because he complained loudly that bad behavior is being rewarded, his words.

And he talked about, you know, separatists or separatist premiers essentially getting their own way.

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