We had a referendum. One that we never should have had. But our idiot government bows to a separatist portion of the province – not the majority – and very much wants to sow division.

And in that, they succeeded. There is division, sometimes wide, in this province. It will remain that way for many years to come. Although we do remain under the Canadian flag – make no mistake: it’s not a surprise, it is a relief – we have very differing opinions on what it means to be Canadian.

Quite a few of these questions were racist and heavily based on the white privilege foundation of the UCP – a party, BTW, that I feel should be made illegal after this nonsense (I also think all parties should be banned) – geared, again, to create division between the white, Christian foundation of the party, and all the genuinely lovely people who have decided to make Alberta their home.

I work with a lot of these people. I have not had a single, solitary issue with a single immigrant person, from any background. I, myself, am an immigrant to this province. So I take personal umbrage with some of these questions.

The referendum had 10 (stupid) questions:

  1. Do you support the Government of Alberta taking increased control over immigration for the purposes of decreasing immigration to more sustainable levels, prioritizing economic migration and giving Albertans first priority on new employment opportunities?

    A few years ago, Alberta – under the same idiotic leadership we have now – ran a campaign called “Alberta is calling”. They had large posters in Toronto’s subway. What did you think would happen?

    Well, to be fair, they thought they’d get only rich, white people. And what we got was a lot of international immigration. We had an 80% growth since 2022 in population – surprise, your campaign worked – with 62% from international. The top four countries? The Philippines (24.6%), India (16.5%), Nigeria (5.1%), and China (4%). Source.

    GASP! People who aren’t white! Pearl-clutching assholes across the province wracked themselves with fear. Because how do you relate to these newcomers if you don’t bother to try to fucking talk to them?!

    Meanwhile, it means excluding perfectly valid candidates because they’re not – GASP!, again – “Albertan”. Which, these days, means “racist asshole”.

    56% of “Albertans” decided it was a good idea.

    Like I said. Racist shitty question.

  2. Do you support the Government of Alberta introducing a law mandating that only Canadian citizens, permanent residents and individuals with an Alberta-approved immigration status will be eligible for provincially-funded programs, such as health care, education and other social services?

    This bullshit question allows our shitty government to implement more rules to block immigrants from getting services. And it allows Alberta to decide who’s an immigrant and who isn’t, even if they’ve been approved to be a Canadian citizen.

    Who the genuine hell do you think you are where you get to decide if someone’s “good enough”? We have a standardized test – every single immigrant to Canada has to pass it to get citizenship – which, I argue, most born-in-Canada citizens wouldn’t do so well on. So does this mean we’ll have an Alberta-specific test? Will it have a whitewashed history, rewritten to make it sound like we’re the fucking God-sent saviours?

    Relately, “provincially-funded” is a bit of a loaded statement. Hey, Alberta, did you know at least 20% of your healthcare comes from Ottawa? Should the allocation of those funds be decided by Edmonton? Or would Ottawa be mildly pissed that the people they approved – and were free to move wherever they wished – are being denied? Guess where this conversation is likely to go…

    57% of my “fellow” Albertans decided that this is a good idea. Fucking pricks.

  3. Assuming that all Canadian citizens and permanent residents continue to qualify for social support programs as they do now, do you support the Government of Alberta introducing a law requiring all individuals with a non-permanent legal immigration status to reside in Alberta for at least 12 months before qualifying for any provincially-funded social support programs?

    What this is really saying? Prove you’re Albertan by staying. I mean, I kind get it, winters here are rough. But who is it targeting?

    Temporary immigrants: migrant workers (think field harvesting, which is a big thing in Canada – and spoiler alert, it’s a job NO CANADIAN WANTS because the pay is shit and it’s hard work), international students (which are a huge boon to the universities whose budgets are perpetually slashed by our beloved government), and refugees (it’s not like we’re setting up tent cities, you assholes).

    Smith’s stupid claim? “For every $1 of taxes a guest worker generates, taxpayers are covering $10 in services." It’s actually $8.6. For 5.5% of the overall population, amount to only 1.27% of actual costs. Source

    Feel like a fucking asshole yet? You fucking should, you fucking twits.

    58% of my fellow residents thought this was a serious fucking issue. Clearly they didn’t bother to read a goddamn thing.

  4. Assuming that all Canadian citizens and permanent residents continue to qualify for public health care and education as they do now, do you support the Government of Alberta charging a reasonable fee or premium to individuals with a non-permanent immigration status living in Alberta for their and their family’s use of the health care and education systems?

    This is just not giving up on the previous question. We return to the 1.27%. That’s the cost. That’s it.

    This isn’t a case of “non-permanent” people driving up our wait times. That joyous fuckery is due to our current UCP government having completely raped our healthcare system, forcing us into private “solutions”, drawing money away from the previously functioning public system. Quite literally, the UCP have caused the very problem they’re blaming on temporary residents.

    You want to claw back the 1.27% of costs? How much will that cost? Implementing a process to charge extra is not something we have in place. You’ll need billing systems changes, people to process those fees, pay other organizations to provide assurance that it’s been done correctly. I’d be willing to bet the cost to implement this will be multiple times more than just ot leave it be.

    “Oh, but healthcare is suffering!” Yes, it is. But not because of temporary workers:

    We have problems way beyond any immigrant or temporary resident. And most of them focus from one office in a government building in Edmonton.

    And yet, 57% of my fuck-witted neighbours decided that this was the bigger problem.

  5. Do you support the Government of Alberta introducing a law requiring individuals to provide proof of citizenship, such as a passport, birth certificate or citizenship card, to vote in an Alberta provincial election?

    This is American-style exclusionary politics. If you don’t have official Alberta government-issued ID, you’re out. Period. No exceptions.

    That means you need to be an approved Alberta resident (see Questions 1 and 2, above). These questions compound, folks, and they’re meant to further drive home the idea that Alberta is not for anyone who’s not white. More racist bullshit.

    The claim, however stupid, is that there is risk of illegal voting. There have been SEVEN instances since 2015. A decade. Millions of votes cast, with a statistically non-existent number of illegal votes.

    This means y’all will have to drop your drawers and get your offical Alberta brand on your ass before the next election. Congratulations, morons.

    A shockingly high 63.5% of Albertans thought this was genius.

  6. Do you support the Government of Alberta working with the governments of other willing provinces to amend the Canadian Constitution to have provincial governments, and not the federal government, select the justices appointed to provincial King’s Bench and Appeal courts?

    What does this mean? It means we don’t have consistency in application of law. If each province has the ability to appoint its own judges, you’ll have a wonderful situation where someone breaking the law in one province will be exhonerated, where another province will apply the law properly.

    Not seen what’s going on in the United States, have you? Roe v. Wade ring a bell? Enjoy your consistency of freedoms while they last, folks – they’re going to change.

    Apparently more Albertans also thought this was a bad idea, but it still won with 51.4% of fucking idiots thinking this was a good idea.

  7. Do you support the Government of Alberta working with the governments of other willing provinces to amend the Canadian Constitution to abolish the unelected federal Senate?

    Oh, the Senate. The perpetual problem. Honestly, the Senate does need reform, but getting rid of it entirely? Not a good idea.

    Why? It’s called “check and balance”. Which, I admit, most Albertans don’t fucking understand when you look at the size of their houses, trucks, boats, and their personal debt. Albertans – on average – hold nearly $25,000 in debt.

    (And that’s not counting mortgages. The average is $339,854. That’s owing. The Canadian average is under $300,000.)

    Me? $0. Because I refuse to hold debt on something I don’t need. Boats? Really?? We have, what, four lakes you can actually boat on in this province, for four months of the year and you want to plunk down a bunch of money to use it every other weekend?

    No, no, please tell me how you pay your bills…

    Well, that’s what the Senate does. Whether we like the way it’s formed or not, the point of the Senate is to question what the House comes up with and determine if it needs refinement or not. Because if we let the house do their own thing, can you imagine the chaos?

    Hey, all you “Fuck Trudeau” idiots out there? IMAGINE GIVING HIM THE POWER TO LITERALLY DO AS HE PLEASED. That’s what this would do. It works for all governments in power at the time, not just the ones you like.

    No-one thinks further than their hand that’s been covering their eyes, I swear.

    53% of short-sighted Albertans thought this was a good idea.

  8. Do you support the Government of Alberta working with the governments of other willing provinces to amend the Canadian Constitution to allow provinces to opt out of federal programs that intrude on provincial jurisdiction such as health care, education and social services, without a province losing any of the associated federal funding for use in its social programs?

    Finally, some goddamn reason. Most Albertans – mind you, a mere 51.3% of them – realized that this puts the entire control of our social programs in Edmonton’s hands, and they’re clearly fucked the dog (or taken it out back and shot it) for the last many years, and maybe – just maybe – this is a bad idea.

    Still, too many of them thought: Sure, why not! I trust them to provide social services!

    Sadly, probably the same idiots who “hate paying taxes” but complain about the state of roads, the long lines at the health clinic, and why their electric bill keeps going up.

  9. Do you support the Government of Alberta working with the governments of other willing provinces to amend the Canadian Constitution to better protect provincial rights from federal interference by giving a province’s laws dealing with provincial or shared areas of constitutional jurisdiction priority over federal laws when the province’s laws and federal laws conflict?

    I have a question. When a provincial law conflicts with the federal one, what is the province doing? I say that having witnessed the UCP goverment using the Nothwithstanding Clause four times in three months: - October 2025: Forcing teachers back to work without so much as a discussion - December 2025: Giving the middle finger to the LGTBQ+ community, forcing people’s names from birth certificate (not as people prefer to be known) and their pronouns (as born, not preferred), banning transgender girls from participating in female sports (a literal non-issue, but a world-ending problem to the pearl-clutchers), and restricting gender-affirming healthcare for youth under 16.

    Basically: Alberta wants to continue to tell the Federal government to “get fucked, we’re going back to the 1970s when everything was awesome” (spoiler alert: it wasn’t; Alberta leaned heavily into wealth at the expense of its own people).

    This was a tight one, with reason barely losing – it’s almost an even split: 50.7% Yes (aka fucking stupid), 49.3% No (the smart ones).

And the big one:

  1. Should Alberta remain a province of Canada, or should the Government of Alberta commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada?

    Option 1: Alberta should remain a province in Canada.

    Option 2: The Government of Alberta should commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada

    This is the one that actually worried me the most. I genuinely believed we would want to remain, but thanks to social media (thank you, Russian and American assholes), I had doubts. I really didn’t want to discover I was going to need start moving to a new province today.

    Yes, that was my concern. I am Canadian. Unlike many Albertans, I’ve lived – more than a few months – in multiple provinces. I’ve paid close attention to how other provinces work. I know that there are ups and downs, and all provinces experience this (yes, even Ontario). That we’ve been on high for so long is the luck of the draw: we got oil. (And, in case you’ve missed some news, we subsidize the hell of companies extracting our most profitable resource. Annually. Money lost to this province’s coffers.)

    So this is also one that annoys me. Because flying the Canadian flag suggests that you not only want to identify as Canadian, but you agree with the policies that make us Canadian. That means we help our neighbours, that we agree with social support, that we want to welcome those who make our country better. This is now a “having cake and eat it, too” situation, given the above votes.

    An overwhelming 75% of votes said Stay. Great, fantastic. Exactly how do you justify your responses when you want to stand on guard for thee? Y’all remind me of a grumpy toddler who demands a treat but refuses to pick up their toys.

Are some of the people who voted “yes” to these asinine questions in my family? Friends? Almost certainly yes, I hate to say. Who? I don’t know. And if I find out, I might be disowning them.

Yes, I am accepting division for myself. I will not associate with despicable people who feel no requirement to support neighbours, even though they want their own services. These are the same people who pass by the homeless and fentanyl-wrecked who are omnipresent in the city, and feel nothing. “What’s in my wallet? What am I _owed?”

The entitlement reeks.

I will not be staying in this province any longer than is utterly feasible. Alberta has shown its colours, and it’s not blue – it’s black, burnt to the core, heartless. And I will not suffer through this for the rest of my life. I’ll take my skills, knowledge, and taxes elsewhere. It’s been made clear that me and my ilk are no longer wanted.