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‘We will definitely surpass the minimum’: [Former Deputy Premier of Alberta] Lukaszuk confident anti-separatist petition can gather needed signatures (www.ctvnews.ca)
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The question that the separatists were proposing was Do you agree that the province shall become a sovereign country and cease to be a province of Canada? And the question that Lukaszuk proposed is Do you agree that Alberta should remain in Canada?

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    The threshold for the petition only requires about 6 percent of the electorate to actually sign the petition, so you'd only need about a third of the people strongly in favour of separatism. That's why the threshold for the referendum was lowered this much. In my opinion, it basically makes the petition passing inevitable. It certainly could be that the 30 percent who are slightly/strongly in favour of separatism are actually an overrepresentation in the polls due to various reasons.

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