Alberta group gets green light to collect signatures for separation referendum Question asks: ‘Do you agree that the province of Alberta should cease to be a part of Canada to become an independent state’ Alberta’s election agency fired the starter’s pistol today in the race to collect enough signatures for a referendum on the province’s withdrawal from Canada. Elections Alberta announced Friday that Mitch Sylvestre and the Alberta Prosperity Project have until Saturday, May 2, to collect just under 178,000 signatures to qualify. “Citizen initiative petition signature sheets have been issued,” Elections Alberta said in a statement Friday. “The proponent... View Article