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Awful results in Alberta, where voters had the literacy to vote overwhelmingly against separation but not to toss out the 5 racist immigration red herrings, which now get weaponized by provinces, police, & the feds to crack down even harder. www.jurist.org/commentary/2...

jurist.orgCanada’s Deportation Machine Is Punishing the Wrong PeopleCanada is deporting people at a record pace, and the political story being used to justify that pace does not hold up. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), the federal agency that enforces immigr...

Eric Barnes

@ebarnescalgary.bsky.social

Euan, keep in mind that the public debate focused on the Seperation question. Danielle ran ads using public money for months pushing people to vote yes on the other questions. These ads ran unopposed with no others ads promoting voting no. This Albertan is surprised how much people voted no.

Euan Thomson

@drugdatadecoded.ca

You are telling me that either people voted without reading the questions or that people knew and voted anyway and both are political illiteracy in my books.

20/10/26, 7:08 pm0 reposts0 likes

Eric Barnes

@ebarnescalgary.bsky.social

No, just saying question 10 took all the oxygen and energy and debate. From my perspective, the questions on immigration are borderline racist considering how many first generation immigrants we have in Alberta, and how they have contributed to the economic vibrancy of the province.