In October of 2026, Albertans will head to the polls for another referendum on a bundle of proposals that angle toward greater Albertan control over education, health care, the courts, and more power and leverage against the federal government. Five of ten questions relate to immigration restrictions, namely limiting access to public services and voting for noncitizens. But the referendum’s biggest bombshell is a question that reads: “Should 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?” In other words, Albertans are, for the first time in their history, being tested on whether they wish to secede entirely from Canada. And the question bites hard into a country already on edge about its sovereignty…

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