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I'm finally relieved to see the leader of a Federal party acknowledge just how vile, disturbing, and successful Danielle Smith and her US master's grievance games have been for them. They won 8 or the 9.

Smith won 5 of 9. Lost 4 of 9. BIG ONE was 'Remain in Canada' winning ratio 3 to one. UCP supporters fell too hard for 'Send Ottawa a message.' Gutting. Analysts' calculations indicate really 8 in 100 ABns prefer separation. Too many ABn racists & cheap bastards. results.elections.ab.ca/8400

it really sends a message to the ucp that they can just do whatever and rule with impunity as long as they set the stage by scapegoating immigrants first

White people doing white people shit?

It's more like privileged people doing privileged people shit. It just so happens here that is associated with whiteness. It's a pity we are not able to differentiate the two.

It’s becoming clear that the feeling of unity suggested by the referendum result is undercut by majority support for questions which feature policies that scapegoat migrants.

But no amount of punching down by Danielle Smith will fix Alberta’s health care, public education or cost-of-living crises. These are the consequences of years of underfunding, not of newcomers trying to build a life in that beautiful province.

Albertans deserve real solutions to the crises they face, not scapegoating that divides us and fuels prejudice. Right now, all Canadians have an opportunity to reject this and say: we stand with migrants facing the brunt of this cynical, negative politics.

I mean, I always knew the province is being run by xenophobic bigots, but seeing that, statistically, about half of everybody I might see on the street is thinking "Go back where you came from" and "We don't want you here" is not all that much fun, no

I just moved here from Toronto. I’m not looking forward to inevitably experiencing this.

Blows my mind that we hit 1.4m for the staying in Canada but the other questions are 60/40 or more towards yes. If you agreed to stay in Canada those questions needed to be a no. Those questions do not represent what Canada is about!!!!

I think part of the problem is that for a low / medium information voter, the separation question was pretty clear, while some (though not all) of the other nine were not as clear. I’ve also noted the irony of New Democrats campaigning *against* abolishing the Senate.

Fuck that. It’s not low / medium information voter. It’s selfish, petty and vindictive voter. Notice on opt out of Federal programs, the vote was no - because it might affect them directly and adversely.

Yes, Albertans are pretty dim.

I saw the actual number of votes for the other questions, which were far lower. I feel like it may be skewed in favour of those who voted yes on them, as opposed to those who simply didn't vote on them at all

I’m appalled that nearly half a million people who voted on the separation question chose not to vote on many of the other questions. Do they not understand that abstention means voting for the majority decision? Had they bothered to vote, the results could be quite different.