Subhead:While the wording on the October referendum isn’t identical to the one proposed by Forever Canada, the practical result is the same.#
Forever Canada founder Thomas Lukaszuk now says, “Our question is not on the referendum.”
But that’s difficult to square with his own campaign. For months, the Forever Canada petition called for a referendum on Alberta’s future in Confederation and collected more than 404,000 signatures asking Albertans whether the province should remain in Canada.
Now, Alberta is heading toward its first-ever referendum to ask a question about independence. “It is the premier’s question,” Lukaszuk said. “It’s not our question. It’s misleading, and our campaign is taking no position on it because it’s not our question.”
Odd, because Lukaszuk is doing a lot of campaigning as a third-party advertiser for the Federalist side anyway.
