Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Jack Farrell
Publication Date: August 7, 2025 - 20:23
Judge reserves decision on whether he’ll strike review of Alberta separation question
August 7, 2025
A judge has reserved his decision on whether to review a proposed Alberta separation referendum question.
Court of King’s Bench Justice Colin Feasby is expected to give his ruling Aug. 14.
The matter stems from Alberta chief electoral officer Gordon McClure referring the proposed question to the Edmonton court last week. He has asked the judge to determine whether the question violates the Constitution, including treaty rights.
Throughout the culture war flareups of the last fifteen years or so, liberals and conservatives have periodically traded fire over matters that are fundamentally symbolic and often negligible to meaningless at the level of actual political substance. In their own different (and often quite cynical) ways, both factions have been adept at converting cultural issues into the language of political grievance and, in turn, into supposed forms of political engagement—and even activism—that have often amounted to little more than new kinds of shopping or media consumption.
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