Between various citizen initiative petitions and Alberta Next recommendations, it’s a near-certainty that Albertans will go to the polls in one form or another in 2026.

Next year will mark five years since the last provincewide referendums, but you’d have to go back decades to find instances of questions being put directly to Albertans. But nothing in Alberta’s history comes close to what’s in store in the months ahead, with potential votes on immigration, constitutional amendments, the Canada Pension Plan, provincial policing, education policy, coal mine development and — of course — Alberta separation.

Premier Danielle Smith has not indicated that her government will stand in the way of any of these potential referendums — quite the opposite, in fact. As premier, that’s certainly her prerogative.

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However, Albertans deserve some clarity on what exactly the plan is — especially when it comes to the biggest question of them all.

Following the UCP’s latest legislative changes, the separatist Alberta Prosperity Project was able to resubmit its proposed referendum question and