‘Losing is not an option’: Forever Canadian petition leader intent on keeping Alberta in Canada

By David Boles, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, St. Albert Gazette If you ask Thomas Lukaszuk, there’s only one answer to the newest referendum question Albertans will be answering on October 19. “We will win,” he said. The former deputy premier of Alberta and the man leading the federalist Forever Canadian initiative responded to Premier Danielle Smith’s address to the province on Thursday night. Over 400,000 people signed Lukaszuk’s petition, launched in response to the separation movement. In her address on May 21, Smith said an additional referendum question will be posed in conjunction with the nine others Albertans will be voting on in just under five months’ time. The latest question will ask whether Albertans want to remain in Canada or whether the legal process should be commenced to hold…

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