{"id":698661,"date":"2026-05-22T13:49:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=698661"},"modified":"2026-05-22T13:49:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:49:43","slug":"alberta-to-hold-fall-referendum-on-whether-to-have-binding-referendum-on-separating-from-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=698661","title":{"rendered":"Alberta to hold fall referendum on whether to have binding referendum on separating from Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>In a pre-recorded speech broadcast Thursday evening, Smith said a question will be added to a provincewide referendum in October that will ask, \u201cShould Alberta remain a province of Canada or should the Government of Alberta commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada?\u201d<\/h4>\n<p><em><strong>Smith said a vote in favour of separation doesn\u2019t trigger the process, but will instead allow Alberta to start a legal process required to hold a binding referendum.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/edmonton\/alberta-separation-referendum-televised-address-9.7208162\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/edmonton\/alberta-separation-referendum-televised-address-9.7208162<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a pre-recorded speech broadcast Thursday evening, Smith said a question will be added to a provincewide referendum in October that will ask, \u201cShould Alberta remain a province of Canada or should the Government of Alberta commence the legal process &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=698661\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698662,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698661\/revisions\/698662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}