Alberta’s Opposition leader says now is not the time to hold a referendum on leaving Canada as the country wages a consequential trade war with its southern neighbors.
NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi says Premier Danielle Smith needs to cancel it or, at the very least, postpone it.
“It’s time to call off the referendum,” Nenshi told reporters Tuesday in Calgary.
“The premier’s pandering to separatists just shows weakness; it shows that Canada is not united.”
Albertans are to vote Oct. 19 in a provincial referendum that asks whether the government should start the legal process to hold a future binding vote on separating from Canada.
Nenshi said Canada has to send a message of unity as it resumes the trade war with the United States.
The US has levied import fees on $28 billion worth of Canadian goods, with Canada announcing counter-tariffs that are to kick in Sept. 8 on an array of items, ranging from American steel and aluminum products to video game consoles and fishing rods.
When asked for a response to Nenshi, Smith’s office referred to the premier’s comments on her radio talk show last weekend. Smith said the thousands of referendum will continue, because hundreds of citizens have signed petitions demanding a resolution.
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“Citizens signed one of two petitions saying they wanted to have this question now, and that’s what the vote is going to be on Oct. 19,” Smith said Saturday.
“I think we need to make sure that we are clear about what Albertans want us to do. That’s part of the reason why we’re having the vote.”
Smith has said she’ll personally be voting to remain in Canada.
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Nenshi’s criticism piggybacks on comments last week from Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon.
St-Pierre Plamondon said if his separatist party takes office in the Quebec general election in October, he would postpone a promised referendum on secession until the end of US President Donald Trump’s presidency.
The unpredictable nature of the Trump administration could harm Quebec’s referendum process and discussions about the province’s future, St-Pierre Plamondon said.
Trump is about midway through his four-year mandate.
The Alberta NDP has accused Smith of holding a separatist vote not to resolve a profound question preoccupying Albertans, but rather to place hardline separatists in her United Conservative Party.
That contrasts with the long-standing separatism concerns of Quebecers, said Nenshi.
“If real separatists (in Quebec) understand the danger of doing this, how come a separatist of convenience, like Danielle Smith, doesn’t understand that danger?” he said.
The battle for hearts and minds of Albertans ahead of the referendum has seen groups on both sides organize advocacy campaigns.
That includes two former Alberta political foes.
Former NDP premier Rachel Notley and ex-UCP premier Jason Kenney announced are co-chairing a Canadian Chamber of Commerce campaign to encourage Alberta stay in Canada.
Both say they have had their differences but agree on the value of Alberta staying in Confederation.
Ever notice how a ‘crisis’ happens that politicians want to use as an excuse to avoid democracy? Sorry Nenshi. There’s zero legitimate reason to block this referendum . In fact, the leverage it represents currently aids Alberta. You are supposed to be pro-Alberta, right?
Nenshi is dog shat!
We need to get rid of the NDP
My Jay-2 personality isn’t the sharpest pencil in the box, as i’ve mentioned before that I don’t think they’re actually going to vote to separate, but if they actually did one day, the chugs wouldn’t be able to stop it. I mean, even if they made up more than the 3-5% of the population, it wouldn’t be a problem mowing those squaws over – almost all of them are high, drunk or OD’ing on the ground anyway. Too funny!
The desperation coming from this demented NAZl clown is on a whole new level these days. Just wait until he finds out that Alberta isn’t separating from Canada. He’ll be back to sending death threats to people online. Just like he did when Charlie Kirk kicked the bucket. What a little bltch 😂🤷🏻💦
All that Alberta oil money going to First Nations people on the rez 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
All that Alberta oil money going to The Liberals in Ottawa 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
All that Alberta oil money going to Quebec 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Cool story bro. Even funnier everything you said is all just a fantasy. Just another inbred delusion. Just like every other pathetic hate post you’ve made. You pretend to be laughing but inside you’re crying like a little bltch. Too funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It’s funny that the chugs think they would be able to prevent Alberta separating if Alberta wants to. I don’t think Albertans will be voting to separate, but if it came down to it, the chugs’ legal/territorial claims would just be ignored at that point. What are they gonna do? Call on the raven spirits? LOL They make up a tiny fraction of the population. We’d just slaughter them. 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
Voorhees is an inbred N a z I twat.
I was just on TikTok and I learned that NAZl white supremacists I mean separatists in Alberta don’t get to have a voice in Canada. They get told to sit down and shut up. Oh and we’ll continue to sell CANADA’S oil and distribute the money to ALL Canadians. Not only is that what’s happening right now but it will continue to happen whether you like it or not. Put that in your pipeline and smoke it 🇨🇦🇨🇦😁😁
“J ay Voorhees
August 28, 2026 at 2:36 am
TBH, my only education comes from TikTok, which is just a shade higher than the average Vancouver chug. Speaking of education, we should rebuild those Residential Schools and send them all back there. If they get out of line, well, we’ll give them real graveyards.”
The level of desperation here 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
Several historical statues, particularly those depicting Canada’s first prime minister Sir John A. Macdonald and British monarchs, have been removed, toppled, or put into storage across Canada. A statue of Egerton Ryerson in Toronto at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) was toppled by protesters in June 2021. The statue of Edward Cornwallis aka the founder of Halifax was removed by the city council in 2018. The statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II were pulled down and toppled from their pedestals outside the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg on Canada day in 2021. A statue of the British explorer James Cook was pulled down and thrown into the harbor in Victoria, BC in 2021. Gassy Jack aka Jack Deighton’s statue in Vancouver’s Gastown district was toppled in February 2022 due to his historical marriage to a 12-year-old girl
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TBH, my only education comes from TikTok, which is just a shade higher than the average Vancouver chug. Speaking of education, we should rebuild those Residential Schools and send them all back there. If they get out of line, well, we’ll give them real graveyards.
hello
“Elbows up pants down getting bum holed
August 27, 2026 at 5:58 pm
Jay voorhees please .Just stop posting dumb stuff and go find a corner to argue with your self .nobody cares about your werdo comments”
At least I can spell past a grade 3 level you inbred piece of white trash. Carney owns your a$$ you clown 🤡🤣
Jay voorhees please .Just stop posting dumb stuff and go find a corner to argue with your self .nobody cares about your werdo comments
What I’m saying is that NAZl white supremacists I mean separatists in Alberta don’t get to have a voice in Canada. They get told to sit down and shut up. Oh and we’ll continue to sell CANADA’S oil and distribute the money to ALL Canadians. Not only is that what’s happening right now but it will continue to happen whether you like it or not. Put that in your pipeIine and smoke it 🇨🇦🇨🇦😂😂
I have multiple personality disorder, and the other guy Jay-2 likes to dwell on the past. It’s too bad it’s not the future. All the wokester statue tumbling activity and renaming of things peaked a few years ago, under the Trudeau regime, who was the one enabling all the madness. It’s dead now. Nobody cares anymore. Vancouver is still Vancouver and not some unpronouncable Chug name like ewuheli!!uvhn!!. Of course, the chugs are free to label their reserves whatever they want. (the rest of us call them sh *itholes) And nobody cares about the Residential Schools, although I think there should be a movement to rebuild them and send the chugs back.
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LOL all I have to do is post facts and the copycat troll freaks out and loses his mind 😂😂😂😂😂
Several historical statues, particularly those depicting Canada’s first prime minister Sir John A. Macdonald and British monarchs, have been removed, toppled, or put into storage across Canada. A statue of Egerton Ryerson in Toronto at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) was toppled by protesters in June 2021. The statue of Edward Cornwallis aka the founder of Halifax was removed by the city council in 2018. The statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II were pulled down and toppled from their pedestals outside the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg on Canada day in 2021. A statue of the British explorer James Cook was pulled down and thrown into the harbor in Victoria, BC in 2021. Gassy Jack aka Jack Deighton’s statue in Vancouver’s Gastown district was toppled in February 2022 due to his historical marriage to a 12-year-old girl
I’m a total loser! A real stooge. A donkey if you will. Brainwashed from globals propaganda. TDS bad too. I have no life so here I am commenting like an uneducated fool. Oh well. Mother loves me. I think so anyways.
Hmmm..regarding the Alberta separatists, I guess I was wrong there. I forgot there’s a referendum question/poll in October, so I guess they do have a voice. How come i’m wrong all the time? Maybe it’s the drugs and my lack of education?? Isn’t TikTok a great source of information?? I need to go whip myself a bit, with all the White Guilt I suffer. Maybe ther’es a chug who’s teeth I can kick in again. Too funny!!
What I’m saying is that NAZl white supremacists I mean separatists in Alberta don’t get to have a voice in Canada. They get told to sit down and shut up. Oh and we’ll continue to sell CANADA’S oil and distribute the money to ALL Canadians. Not only is that what’s happening right now but it will continue to happen whether you like it or not. Put that in your pipeline and smoke it 🇨🇦🇨🇦😂😂
Since fat Nenshi and his NDP friends do not understand the concept of democracy, much less how to employ it, I think Albertans should cancel the NDP.
I agree, cancel the referendum and declare Alberta Independence immediately. Staying with Canada that is only focused on eastern Canada’s auto, steel, aluminum and dairy industry and couldn’t care less about western Canada.
What am I saying. Because of Europeans, I wouldn’t have all the technology, medicine, sanitation, etc that make life in the western world so great. Could you imagine if the chugs were left alone here? They’d still be scaling each other for beaver pelts. It was so hilarious when they claimed there were mass gravesites besides the Reisdential Schools. Those schools were the best thing to ever happen to those loser chugs. In fact, we should re-build some and send them back there.
Put a strap-on Daniele and cornhole that pig nenshit good!
NDP some how think albertans don’t have the right for democracy. They need pack thair bags and go to Ontario
How about ndp go f right off
End of the World scenario from Daniel Smith!!!
Alberta oil and gas belong to province of Alberta
These wankers will literally try anything to avoid having this vote – that along with our fearless leaders self-harming ‘reciprocal’ tariffs mean the question should absolutely be asked
Courses in basket weaving
I’m on a thousand sites under a hundred names
Freedumb.
ALBERTA is my facking country
NDP B.S.! Let’s have the separation referendum question and get it done with. Not knowing is far more harmful to Alberta and Canada’s economy!
The NDP is so establishment conformist it’s just embarrassing at this point.
Just thought of this new one…
Axe the separatists.
There you have it my people.
Fakh trudo.
Any excuse for the beloved ndp,to keep the status quo, nothing to see here folks
What I’m saying is that NAZl white supremacists I mean separatists in Alberta don’t get to have a voice in Canada. They get told to sit down and shut up. Oh and we’ll continue to sell CANADA’S oil and distribute the money to ALL Canadians. Not only is that what’s happening right now but it will continue to happen whether you like it or not. Put that in your pipeline and smoke it 🇨🇦🇨🇦😁😁
Danielle turds are smarter than ANY canadian politician
What am I saying. Because of Europeans, I wouldn’t have all the technology, medicine, sanitation, etc that make life in the western world so great. Could you imagine if the chugs were left alone here? They’d still be scaling each other for beaver pelts. It was so hilarious when they claimed there were mass gravesites besides the Reisdential Schools. Those schools were the best thing to ever happen to those loser chugs. In fact, we should re-build some and send them back there.
Obviously they would.. The NDP want Alberta to continue sending Ottawa money to launder.
There’s nothing better than seeing the renaming of public spaces, the removal of statues of early European leaders, and ongoing shifts in school curricula. The European settlers will always be remembered as lying thieves just like the Alberta separatists and their pathetic attempt at stealing Alberta from Canada 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It’ll never be the right time.
Let us vote and if you’re not an albertan your opinion doesn’t matter. Like at all.
Also Nenshi go to gym and stop picking you’re nose on national television
“Jay Voorhees
August 26, 2026 at 3:59 pm
The NDP there cleary want to prevent Albertans from having a voice. I’m surprised they still have a political party. Nenshi needs to be deported to the nearest communist-run country. Let’s export him to China or Cuba.”
Lol look at the copycat troll cry like a little bltch 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I love it
First off people just need to get out and vote this October for what ever they feel is right to them and not get caught up in all the trash talk on these comment forms.
It would be nice to get 90 plus percent of registered voters to vote but at best there may be 70 percent who will go vote.
Also do not list to any politician and their opinions as they are all seem to be out to keep their base of voters happy and not even trying to earn other voters. The leaders we currently have in my opinion have failed the voters whether it is Smith, Nenshi or any of the political leaders in federal, provincial, or municipal governments.
Until we get some new leaders and directions that work for the majority and not the bases we are going to continue this division in our country and continue to look weak.
The NDP there cleary want to prevent Albertans from having a voice. I’m surprised they still have a political party. Nenshi needs to be deported to the nearest communist-run country. Let’s export him to China or Cuba.
What’s this fat f *uck Nenshi really afraid of?
Naheed tell us the real reason.
More likely he doesn’t want his gravy train to end.
If everyone voted to separate two things happen:
1] Canada will have to listen to Albertans concerns and actually have to act. Doing this gives Ottawa time to prove that Alberta is as worthy as Quebec, before the real separation vote comes.
2] Alberta would be able to get tax and tariff relief and give Washington a chance to increase direct free trade. Maybe a pipeline to a Pacific port? Ottawa would have to agree in fear of losing Canada’s cash cow, Alberta.
If the vote is called off, Alberta is going to have to send a lot more money to provinces hurt by 50% tariffs; BC, On, Qu. Giving away Alberta’s option of separation would allow Ottawa to raise everyone’s taxes.
Better to hold the vote, even if against separation a yes vote will help Albertans, get something for the billions of dollars Ottawa takes.
Nope.
I fly the Alberta flag because I love Alberta and want it to restore its former glory, economic and otherwise. Frankly,I don’t give a flying f if you think I’m a separatist. I’d prefer not to be but, as long as Ottawa stifles every effort to restore Alberta economy, I have no choice but to vote for separation.
What? No way don’t cancel the vote. Everyone wants to see the NAZl MAGA separatists lose so the rest of Canada can point fingers at them and laugh. It’ll be like the Freedumb KKKonvoy all over again!!
Only a complete twat would take advice from this epic failure of a politician and his gaggle of Dipsticks.
So one group of petitioners, Nenshi included, signed a petition to remain Forever Canadian. But no vote was cast. Not binding, since the electorate had no say. The Alberta Prosperity Project petitioners signed a petition to empower Albertans to determine their own destiny outside of Confederation. But no vote was cast, since the electorate had no say. Danielle Smith, who wishes to remain in Canada, is allowing the people of Alberta to vote on the issue. Interesting how those who are against the people voting on anything before making any decisions only want their opinion to be voted on. That, kids, is called absolutisim – or totalitarianism.
The sooner we vote, the sooner the people who think Alberta should separate will be shut up. This is a good thing. The divisiveness needs to stop. I want to proudly fly the Alberta flag, without people thinking I am a separatist.
Nenshi is a numpty. A reject looking cockeyed numpty. He can GFHS.
Nenshi should crawl back in his hole. Spend more millions on green energy credits so you get rich with Carney as Canada sinks further and further into recession. Be part of a solution not a cry baby slamming another party. Let’s hear your big plan instead of your whining.
Danielle, only politician with a brain in her head.Nenshi a reetarded POS
SEPARATION NOW…!!!
Are you kidding? This is her ‘coupe d’état”. Her baby. She drank his poison, slept under his roof in his whorehouse. She thinks she’s golden, famous. Nothing but a traitor.
Why should it not happen? What is the NDP scared of.
Of course the commies want the vote stopped. Years ago the NDP were worth something now they are a refuge for the insane! Numerous Dumb People aka useful id10ts
Call off the referendum? Yes! With how the Federal Government is destroying Canada, Alberta should skip the referendum and declare Independence immediately. We are not going to allow Alberta to be dragged down economically just because we made a bad decision to join Confederation. Joining Confederation was supposed to be good for Alberta but we are finding out it was a huge mistake.
Of course the commies what the vote stopped. Years ago the NDP were worth something now they are a refuge for the insane!