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Stockwell Day supports Alberta vote on separation, warns it’s dangerous for Tories
- Former Conservative MP Stockwell Day from Edmonton warned on May 16, 2025, that Alberta’s proposed referendum on separation risks splitting Conservative support and strengthening Liberals.
- This warning follows Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s recent bill to ease citizen-initiated referendums, including votes on separation, amid ongoing Indigenous backlash and legal limits on unilateral secession.
- A Leger poll conducted May 9-12 of 1,000 Albertans found majority opposition to separation scenarios, with 67% opposing Alberta as an independent country and 80% against joining the U.S.
- Day stated he does not believe separatists would reach 50% referendum support and expressed support for more provincial control of resources and health care while cautioning against risking Alberta’s future in Canada.
- Day’s comments imply that the separatist movement could revive vote-splitting that historically weakened Conservatives, suggesting federal parties must address Western grievances to avoid political instability.
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Carney government should end damaging energy policies amid separatist sentiment in Alberta
From the Fraser Institute By Tegan Hill Following last month’s Liberal election victory, and after a decade of damaging federal policies by the Trudeau government, some Albertans are calling for a referendum on separation. While Premier Danielle Smith said she does not support separation she “will honour” the referendum process. And according to a recent poll, more than one-third of Albertans are open to leaving Canada. But whether or not the re…
Stockwell Day Says Alberta Separation Movement Splits the Conservative Vote
The Alberta separatist movement presents a danger to the federal Conservative party, said former Tory member of Parliament Stockwell Day. “I’ll lose friends saying this:—it will only split the vote and only strengthen the Liberal position,” he said in an interview from Edmonton. In the most recent federal election, more than 1.4 million Albertans voted for a Conservative candidate and elected 34 of the party’s 143 MPs. Day said both an independe…
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