Just Vote
No.
Racist dog whistles, political grandstanding, and separatist pandering. That's what's on this ballot. None of it is binding, but the UCP will use every Yes as a mandate. Don't give them one. Vote No on 1 through 9. Vote to remain a province of Canada on 10.
Your 2026 Referendum Ballot
Here's how to vote. Tap any question to see what it really means.
Question 1
Do you support the Government of Alberta taking increased control over immigration for the purposes of decreasing immigration to more sustainable levels, prioritizing economic migration and giving Albertans first priority on new employment opportunities?
▸▾ WHAT THIS REALLY MEANS
Yes
No
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"Taking control" means the province writing its own immigration rules, with no plan for who gets cut. "Albertans first" quietly leaves out permanent residents and long-time workers who aren't citizens yet.
Question 2
Do you support the Government of Alberta introducing a law mandating that only Canadian citizens, permanent residents and individuals with an Alberta-approved immigration status will be eligible for provincially funded programs, such as health care, education and other social services?
▸▾ WHAT THIS REALLY MEANS
Yes
No
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"Alberta-approved" is a status the province would invent and control itself. That's a gate the government can open or shut on someone's health care or school access whenever it wants.
Question 3
Assuming that all Canadian citizens and permanent residents continue to qualify for social support programs as they do now, do you support the Government of Alberta introducing a law requiring all individuals with a non-permanent legal immigration status to reside in Alberta for at least 12 months before qualifying for any provincially funded social support programs?
▸▾ WHAT THIS REALLY MEANS
Yes
No
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A 12-month waiting period on people who are here legally, working, and paying taxes right now. Lose your job or need care in month three, and you're on your own.
Question 4
Assuming that all Canadian citizens and permanent residents continue to qualify for public health care and education as they do now, do you support the Government of Alberta charging a reasonable fee or premium to individuals with a non-permanent immigration status living in Alberta for their and their family's use of the health care and education systems?
▸▾ WHAT THIS REALLY MEANS
Yes
No
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Nobody defines "reasonable fee" here; the government sets it later, with no cap written into the question. It's a tax on getting sick or sending your kid to school, aimed at people with the least power to fight it.
Question 5
Do you support the Government of Alberta introducing a law requiring individuals to provide proof of citizenship, such as a passport, birth certificate, or citizenship card, to vote in an Alberta provincial election?
▸▾ WHAT THIS REALLY MEANS
Yes
No
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There's no evidence of non-citizens voting in Alberta elections. This question invents a problem to justify ID rules that make voting harder for everyone, especially lower-income and rural Albertans who don't own a passport.
Question 6
Do you support the Government of Alberta working with the governments of other willing provinces to amend the Canadian Constitution to have provincial governments, and not the federal government, select the justices appointed to provincial King's Bench and Appeal courts?
▸▾ WHAT THIS REALLY MEANS
Yes
No
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This hands judicial appointments to whoever holds power in the legislature at the time. You'd be trading an arm's-length federal process for one that runs entirely inside provincial politics.
Question 7
Do you support the Government of Alberta working with the governments of other willing provinces to amend the Canadian Constitution to abolish the unelected federal Senate?
▸▾ WHAT THIS REALLY MEANS
Yes
No
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Abolishing the Senate needs Parliament and every province to agree. No reform push has cleared that bar in over 40 years. This is a symbolic vote, not a plan.
Question 8
Do you support the Government of Alberta working with the governments of other willing provinces to amend the Canadian Constitution to allow provinces to opt out of federal programs that intrude on provincial jurisdiction such as health care, education, and social services, without a province losing any of the associated federal funding for use in its social programs?
▸▾ WHAT THIS REALLY MEANS
Yes
No
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It wants the federal money without the federal standards attached. Those standards are why health care works the same way whether you're in Calgary or Charlottetown.
Question 9
Do you support the Government of Alberta working with the governments of other willing provinces to amend the Canadian Constitution to better protect provincial rights from federal interference by giving a province's laws dealing with provincial or shared areas of constitutional jurisdiction priority over federal laws when the province's laws and federal laws conflict?
▸▾ WHAT THIS REALLY MEANS
Yes
No
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Wherever federal and provincial law overlap, Alberta's version would win. That's most of health care, education, and civil rights. The Canada Health Act and the Charter would still exist on paper. They'd just mean something different depending on which province you're standing in.
Question 10
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?
▸▾ WHAT THIS REALLY MEANS
Alberta should remain a province of Canada.
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Commence the legal process toward separation.
Picking the second choice starts the actual legal process toward a binding referendum on leaving Canada. Most Albertans don't want to leave. The ones who do are a vocal minority, and the UCP is spending real public money to give them a platform. That money could go anywhere else.
What these ten questions add up to
Racist dog whistles with a policy coat of paint. The UCP is already writing these laws anyway. A Yes just gives them cover to go further.
Grandstanding. Every one needs other provinces to agree, and none will. The UCP knows it.
The UCP put this on the ballot to keep the separatists happy. Vote the wrong way and it stops being a poll. It becomes a mandate to break up the country.
Just Vote No.
To all of it.
This isn't a conversation. It's a government building a mandate for decisions it's already made. Show up on October 19th. Vote No on questions 1 through 9. Vote to remain a province of Canada on question 10.