There are about 200 days left before we trundle to polls, through fall leaves and under gym lights behind cardboard dividers, after what will no doubt be unconscionably long waits, to decipher nine referendum questions—with a potential tenth being about whether Alberta should cut itself loose from Confederation. On April 10, an Edmonton court threw the breaks on that. Justice Shaina Leonard found the potential for “irreparable” harm to the treaty relationship between First Nations and the Crown (Alberta did not become a province until later) and blocked election officials from certifying...