Overview
- Advance voting opened Tuesday, Oct. 13, with Elections Alberta preparing for far higher turnout than recent elections.
- Elections Alberta reported about 650,000 special‑ballot requests and has hired more than 44,000 election workers to handle the surge.
- The referendum uses 10 separate questions with the last asking whether Alberta should begin the constitutional process to hold a binding referendum on separation.
- Prime Minister Mark Carney released a Thanksgiving video urging unity and national leaders and organized groups are holding rallies and get‑out‑the‑vote events across Alberta in the final week.
- Experts warn several ballot items exceed clear provincial authority and that any path to separation would require lengthy negotiations under Supreme Court precedent rather than unilateral independence.