The former politician of Alberta, trying to prevent the province of split with Canada, says that his campaign does not reach his goal, but he does not slow down.
Thomas Lukashuk Forever Canadian The petition is aimed at making it an official policy for Alberta to stay in the country.
Lukashuk says that his group, now with about 5,000 canvases, collecting names, collected 230,000 signatures.
These are about 64,000 people who are about 294,000 necessary until the end of October to call a referendum.
The campaign is a rollback against separatist sentiments in Albert, who again flew to the surface after the victory of the federal liberals in late April.
Prime Minister Daniel Smith The United Conservative Government later reduced the threshold for citizens to initiate a referendum, including separatism.
Lukashuk put his petition before it entered into force, and his campaign is subject to old rules.
This includes the need to collect the necessary signatures in three months instead of four.
Over the next three weeks, surrounded by volunteers and supporters in his house on the highway – a car for a vacation, called the Unity bus, ”said Lukashuk on Friday that he was optimistic.
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“We are at home. But this is a race, and you just do not stop running when you think that everything is fine with you. You just continue to run, and we have not yet reached the finish line, ”he told reporters in Edmonton.
“We are two -thirds in the campaign, and we have more than two -thirds of signatures.”
When Lukashuk shook his hand, a crowd of several dozen burst into a solemn performance CanadaField
Its goal is to surpass 300,000 signatures in order to soften against some that were disqualified from the absent number of the phone or incorrect electronic letter.
“We do not perceive it for granted. We still know that we have a large number of, perhaps 100,000 signatures that we must collect in order to feel comfortable, ”he said.
Like many improvised personal efforts to sign volunteers campaigning on the streets, the Friday event also became the possibility of the collection.
Nine boxes of signed petition sheets were pulled out of the Kalgary region as a volunteer. One person who goes to the dog in a neighboring park stopped to put his name to the matter.
Lukashuk said that his campaign finds support in every constituency of the province, including in rural Albert, where many can assume that “separatism -festival.”
“One thing for sure is the damn proud Canadians.”
Smith said that she wanted to see the sovereign Albert in the United Canada and refused to support Lucasuk's campaign.
She and the Minister of Justice of Mickey America said that the opposite question asks if Albert should separate from Canada constitutional and had to be approved by Alberta's elections.
The chief employee of the province sent this issue from the project of the “prosperity” of the Alberta separatist group, to the court for a judicial consideration of whether it violates the Constitution, including the rights of the contract.
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