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This outcome may not have been so likely if the Forever Canadian petition campaign had not advertised itself as a campaign for a referendum, but it very plainly did, for reasons that are still unclear. Did Lukaszuk just tick the box with the lower vote threshold?

The courts have already decided that the opposite referendum, asking if Albertans want to separate, cannot proceed without consulting the First Nations. The government appears to believe that asking the question in reverse gets around this, even though the referendum will provide the same data.

To the hundreds of Albertans who spent all summer volunteering for Lukaszuk in a campaign against a separation referendum, only to end up as the justification for a separation referendum themselves, we can only offer our condolences.