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Alberta Prosperity Project petition submission, 2026
A contemporary separatist organisation submitted petition signatures seeking to trigger an independence referendum.
What happened
On 4 May 2026, Mitch Sylvestre submitted petition signatures to Elections Alberta seeking to trigger a referendum on the question of Alberta ceasing to be part of Canada.[1]
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Claim: The Alberta Prosperity Project (APP), led by businessman Mitch Sylvestre, has campaigned through an initiative called Stay Free Alberta to gather petition signatures in support of a referendum on Albertan independence, proposing the referendum question "Do you agree that the province of Alberta should cease to be a part of Canada to become an independent state?"; on 4 May 2026, Sylvestre submitted boxes of petition signatures to Elections Alberta in an effort to trigger such a referendum.
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