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This week, Alberta is officially lowering the required threshold for citizen-initiated referendums (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/alberta

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Does this mean that Albertans can start a petition to charge Marlaina Smith with treason?

[–] Arghblarg 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I presume you meant Danielle Smith.. yes, let's hope so. Make it the first and biggest petition under the new rule!

[–] Randomgal 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Her name is Marlaina. She believes you have to use the name you were given at birth or fuck you. That name is not "Danielle" in her case.

[–] Arghblarg 2 points 4 hours ago

Oh? TIL, thanks. Isn't that weird and hypocritical then? Hmmm.

[–] streetfestival 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The change, going into effect this Friday, will be from requiring 600,000 signatures collected in 90 days to 177,000 signatures in 120 days, to trigger a citizen-initiated referendum.

Per Wikipedia, there were 4.4 million people in Alberta as of 2021. If we assume 60% of those are eligible voters, the proportion of the electorate required to trigger the referendum will go from 23% to 7%.

I think of increased susceptibility to populism. I think of the electorate and politics - in Alberta, and federally to placate Albertans and prevent separation - more focused on trivial issues while business as usual (ie, growing inequality) continues

[–] masterofn001 1 points 1 hour ago

What an oddly strange number.

177,000

Almost as if they have some research that suggests some number of people who would do some certain thing is around that number.