1/5 🇨🇦 #UCP IGNORES MISSING SEPARATISM QUESTION & DEMONIZES IMMIGRANTS 🇨🇦
#Lukaszuk claims #DanielleSmith is intentionally leaving #Separatism off the Oct. 19 ballot, waiting for a rival pro-independence petition to qualify.
CityNews...
#AbLeg #CdnPoli #DemocracySky
#Resist #UCP #Elections #AbPoli
“It was a foregone conclusion that separatists will get to ask their question because the premier #DanielleSmith is bending over backwards to make sure we have a referendum on #separatism,” #Lukaszuk told @thealbertan.bsky.social on Dec. 23. 🇨🇦 #Cdnpoli #ABpoli
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1/8
🇨🇦 🚨 LUKASZUK: ALBERTA FACES "EXISTENTIAL" CHOICE ON #SEPARATISM 🚨 🇨🇦
Former Deputy Premier Thomas #Lukaszuk warns that his successful "Forever Canadian" petition has backed Premier #Smith into a corner.
She must now choose between a "hellish" referendum or a vote in the House.
#AbLeg #CdnPoli
7/8 Thomas #Lukaszuk ("Forever Canadian" petition) says the #UCP championed this law for democracy, but now they're "walking away."
"Unless the Chief Electoral Officer is able to do his job... the legislation is meaningless.”
Climenhaga: The law was never expected to be used against the UCP.
9/12 The #separatist camp, led by the Alberta Prosperity Project (APP), is trying to spin this as a win.
#APP lawyer Jeffrey #Rath, who previously called Lukaszuk's question "silly," has changed his tune, claiming #Lukaszuk "has been running around the province, basically collecting for us."
3/12 This is a direct, pre-emptive strike against #separatist groups.
#Lukaszuk, a fierce critic of Premier Smith's #populism, launched his campaign before separatist groups could.
The battle is now over semantics, and who gets to ask the defining question of Alberta's future.
#CdnPoli #UCPfail
1/12
🇨🇦 TAKING CONTROL OF THE #SEPARATIST NARRATIVE 🇨🇦
In a pivotal moment for Alberta, former Deputy Premier Thomas #Lukaszuk turned in a #citizen #petition with more than 456,000 signatures, all urging the province to unapologetically remain a part of Canada.
#AbLeg
5/8 #Lukaszuk isn't actually asking for a #referendum. He’s asking the Premier "to do the right thing" and have Alberta's MLAs vote on the issue to "put #separatist talks to bed once and for all."
This simple request, now backed by nearly half a million citizens, boxes the #UCP in politically.
1/8
🇨🇦 ‘FOREVER CANADIAN’ RESULTS SHOCK THE UCP 🇨🇦
When #Lukaszuk claimed he'd deliver 300K pro-Canada petition signatures, Smith’s separatist allies laughed.
They dismissed him as “Little Tommy Lukaszuk", writes Climenhaga for The Tyee.
On Tuesday he delivered 61 boxes.
#AbLeg #AlbertaPolitics
2/7 This massive database of names, phone numbers, and email addresses is a "stack of pure gold" for any political campaign.
The success, achieved in just 90 days against a 294,000-signature requirement, has sparked widespread talk.
The obvious question: will #Lukaszuk form a new #centrist party?
🇨🇦 1/7
SPECULATION LUKASZUK COULD FORM NEW POLITICAL PARTY 🇨🇦
Thomas #Lukaszuk delivered 456,000 signatures for his #ForeverCanadian #anti-separatist campaign.
But as Calgary Herald columnist Don Braid writes, politicians see more than just a petition: they see a "gigantic pile" of data.
#AbPoli
Former education minister Thomas Lukaszuk says Danielle Smith's UCP hasn't done enough to end the teachers' strike & should reevaluate private school funding in #Alberta.
📺 FULL: rtrj.info/102425Thomas
🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/102425
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#abpoli #ableg #alberta #Lukaszuk
2/3 #Lukaszuk announced the final tally is just over 456,000 signatures.
This is "far greater" than the ~294,000 signatures required under the #CitizenInitiativeAct rules that applied to this petition, enough to potentially initiate a referendum.
#ForeverCanadian
1/3
🇨🇦 🎇🎉🎊🥳 'FOREVER CANADIAN' PETITION SECURES 456,000 SIGNATURES 🥳🎊🎉🎇 🇨🇦
The Canadian Press reports the petition, organized by fmr. Dep. Premier Thomas #Lukaszuk to affirm Alberta's place in Canada, has exceeded its goal.
#AbPoli #Alberta #CdnPoli #ForeverCanadian
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Petition to keep Alberta in Canada ‘really close’ to collecting enough signatures
#abpoli #ableg #Alberta #ForeverCanadian #Signatures
#Vote #Lukaszuk #Politics
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
Pro-Canada petition group optimistic that they can collect 300K signatures in Alberta
#abpoli #ableg #Alberta #ForeverCanadian #noseparation
#procanadian #signatures
#DanielleSmithIsASeparatist
#Lukaszuk #Canada #CanadaProud
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
Alberta pro-Canada referendum petition ‘movement’ attracts half-million website views, 7,000 volunteers
#abpoli #ableg #Alberta
#Canada #ForeverCanada
#ForeverCanadian #Lukaszuk
#Canada #NoSeparation
#DanielleSmithIsASeparatist
#FireTheUCP #FireSmith
2/12 "This has become a full-time job. I'm very passionate about this," says Lukaszuk, leading the "Forever Canadian" petition campaign.
"When we get to 300,000 signatures, this will be the biggest petition in the history of Canada."
#ForeverCanadian #Lukaszuk
1/12 🇨🇦 THE BATTLE FOR ALBERTA'S SOUL: UNITY VS SEPARATION 🇨🇦
Former deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk races to collect 294,000 signatures by October to keep Alberta in Canada, while separatists mobilise.
The Canadian Press reports.
#Alberta #CanadianUnity #ABpoli #CDNpoli #ThomasLukaszuk
#Lukaszuk
9/11 As Rath faces professional sanctions, Thomas Lukaszuk's "Alberta Forever Canada" campaign just got approval to gather signatures for a pro-federalist referendum.
The separatist movement's key legal figure is crumbling while unity forces advance.
#Lukaszuk #AlbertaForeverCanada
3/12 Former PC deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk launched "Alberta Forever Canada" - and got there first.
Elections Alberta's Gordon McClure approved Lukaszuk's pro-federalist question while sending the separatist petition to court review.
#Lukaszuk #Strategy
Stopping seperation with
Thomas Lukaszuk on
The @thebreakdownab.bsky.social
Episode 7.23
www.youtube.com/live/wEG47Fa...
#abpoli #ableg #Alberta #seperation #Lukaszuk #NoSeparation
#DanielleSmithIsASeparatist
#FireTheUCP #FireSmith
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‘We will definitely surpass the minimum’: Lukaszuk confident anti-separatist petition can gather needed signatures
#abpoli #ableg #Alberta #Canada #NoSeperation
#Lukaszuk #CanadaForever
#signatures #politics
Elections Alberta confirms that duelling referenda aren’t allowed.
The authority reviews applications in the order they’re received, and #Lukaszuk was first to submit a question that met legal requirements.
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When they huff and puff, we fight for Canada.🇨🇦
@lukaszukab.bsky.social
#ForeverCanada #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #canpoli #CanadaStrong #Alberta #NoSeparation #HuffAndPuff #FightForCanada #Thomas #Lukaszuk
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/vid...
Former Alberta conservative MLA launches petition to stop Alberta separation
#NoSeparation #ableg #abpoli #DanielleSmithIsASepratist #Thomas #Lukaszuk #CanadaStrong #Canada #cdnpoli #canpoli #Alberta
