Alberta Fact Check

Fact Check: While a King’s Court justice has determined that petitioning for an independence referendum has clashed with the duty to consent with Indigenous peoples, it hasn’t stated that provincial independence would violate or invalidate treaties. FULL FACT CHECK: rebelne.ws/4x11lu1

Fact Check: There is no reason to suggest the U.S. would use its military to intervene in Canada's affairs. FULL FACT CHECK: rebelne.ws/4vgkdn7

Fact Check: While a King’s Court justice has determined that petitioning for an independence referendum has clashed with the duty to consent with Indigenous peoples, it hasn’t stated that provincial independence would violate or invalidate treaties. rebelne.ws/4x11lu1

Fact Check: Albertans can decide for themselves whether that's a principled position — or simply a double standard. FULL FACT CHECK: rebelne.ws/4vroKDz

Fact Check: There is no reason to suggest the U.S. would use its military to intervene in Canada's affairs. rebelne.ws/4vpBKcU

Fact Check: Former Conservative strategist Dimitri Soudas is the latest commentator trying to convince Albertans that even discussing sovereignty is too complicated to contemplate. FULL FACT CHECK: rebelne.ws/4foTArL

Fact Check: Frank Graves once urged Liberals to fight a culture war against Alberta using American political stereotypes. Today, he warns that American influence is shaping Alberta politics. rebelne.ws/3Qa97Bk

Fact Check: The former Conservative communications director presents a daunting list of post-independence negotiations, but much of it consists of routine state-building issues, while some items don't even apply to a landlocked province. rebelne.ws/439JzqZ

Several public figures are claiming the United Conservative Party is bound by a statement of principles to retain loyalty to a united Canada. rebelnews.com/alberta_fact_c…

Editor’s Note: That was part of an initial Agreement in Principle, which had been proposed to bring the Wildrose and Progressive Conservative parties together in a merger. That proposal for a statement on unity was debated and rejected by the founding UCP members.

Editor’s Note: That was part of an initial Agreement in Principle, which had been proposed to bring the Wildrose and Progressive Conservative parties together in a merger. That proposal for a statement on unity was debated and rejected by the founding UCP members. It was never enshrined in the party's principles. Peter McCaffrey, who served on the policy committee during the party’s founding, has repeatedly corrected the record on the issue. This does not make the UCP a secessionist party. But there is no truth to the claim that the current party is bound by a statement of principles to retain loyalty to a united Canada.

Editor’s Note: That was part of an initial Agreement in Principle, which had been proposed to bring the Wildrose and Progressive Conservative parties together in a merger. That proposal for a statement on unity was debated and rejected by the founding UCP members. It was never enshrined in the party's principles. Peter McCaffrey, who served on the policy committee during the party’s founding, has repeatedly corrected the record on the issue. This does not make the UCP a secessionist party. But there is no truth to the claim that the current party is bound by a statement of principles to retain loyalty to a united Canada.

Fact Check: Multiple public figures have falsely stated that the United Conservative Party (UCP) has a clause in its founding principles calling for loyalty within a united Canada. rebelne.ws/3PYF6US

The only way the October referendum could blow its budget by as much as 500 percent, as Nenshi purports, is if Nenshi himself managed the process. albertafactcheck.com/fact_check_nen…

FACT CHECK: On CTV’s Power Play, NDP leader Naheed Nenshi said, “This referendum is going to cost anywhere between fifty and a hundred million dollars.”

Globe and Mail headline claims 700,000 Albertans who signed petitions are 'illusory' albertafactcheck.com/alberta_fact_c…

FACT CHECK: Over 700,000 Albertans signed petitions calling for a referendum on independence.

International media outlets falsely claim Alberta is holding a referendum on separation albertafactcheck.com/international_…

FACT CHECK: The question expected to appear on the ballot in a referendum on October 19th doesn’t offer a direct path to provincial separation.

Andrew Coyne suggests Alberta's oil might not go with Alberta? albertafactcheck.com/alberta_fact_c…

FACT CHECK: Columnist Andrew Coyne weighed into the Alberta separation debate with a novel theory: that if Alberta ever left Confederation, it shouldn't assume it would leave with all of its territory, including the parts containing oil and gas.

CBC's Graham Thomson says 'Forever Canadian' petition wasn't about referendum — Thomas Lukaszuk said it was albertafactcheck.com/cbcs_graham_th…

FACT CHECK: The CBC commentator asserted those who signed Thomas Lukaszuk's 'Forever Canadian' petition merely wanted a vote in the provincial legislature, a claim Lukaszuk himself repeatedly contradicted.

Professor claims there is no evidence Stay Free Alberta collected 300,000+ signatures albertafactcheck.com/fact_check_pro…

FACT CHECK: While a formal count may never happen, plenty of evidence exists that the signatures were collected in good faith and that the numbers are accurate.

Michael Harris calls Alberta the 'bad kid' — and proves the point he was trying to dismiss albertafactcheck.com/alberta_fact_c…

FACT CHECK: Harris frames Alberta as having a 'behavioural' issue in his latest Hill Times column.