Show Notes
Last show before the referendum. Back in episode two, Alberta Prosperity Project leader Mitch Sylvestre told us there was no American involvement in the separatist campaign. A new Globe and Mail investigation says he met Republican strategists in Calgary this January. Tim goes back through his tape and finds Sylvestre describing a trip to the U.S. in 2025, one he says he told Premier Danielle Smith about the same day.
Then we look at the conservatives now campaigning to stay. Jason Kenney sounds very different from the premier who helped build the tools separatists are using today. Former Reform MP and immigration minister Monte Solberg talks about growing up on grievance politics and why he thinks today’s separatists took it somewhere else. We finish with the question that’s been on Tim’s mind all season: if the vote doesn’t go the separatists’ way, how does any of this end?
Referenced The Globe and Mail investigation by Carrie Tait, Nathan Vanderklippe and Grant Robertson on separatist meetings with Republican operatives Dani Paradis’ Globe and Mail op-ed on Jason Kenney’s role in the referendum [ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
More from Separation Anxiety: The Alberta Referendum
Albertans have voted, and it isn’t close. In this short drop-in episode recorded the morning after the October 19 referendum, Tim Querengesser and Dani Paradis go through the early results, the reactions from both camps, and what the vote means for the separatist movement and for Premier Danielle Smith.
As Alberta heads toward a referendum focused on separation, First Nations people are asking a question most Albertans haven't: What happens to the treaties? In this episode, Danielle goes to Indigenous Rock the Vote in Maskwacis, and Tim and Danielle sit down with separatist leaders, who say an independent Alberta would offer Indigenous nations "a better path." Tim and Danielle then bring two treaty experts into the studio to explain why, for them, leaving is never an option.
Separatists talk about a trillion-dollar surplus and an Independent Alberta with no income tax. So, where are the numbers to prove Albertans would be better off?
Alberta journalists Danielle Paradis and Tim Querengesser explore the upcoming Alberta separatist referendum. Photo: Amanda Erickson Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.