theconversation.com/albertans-soundly-vote-to-stay-in-canada-many-are-asking-why-they-had-to-vote-in-the-first-place-294396 Albertans soundly vote to stay in Canada. Many are asking why they had to vote in the first place
Unofficial results show Alberta voters rejecting independence by a 50-point margin, with three in four choosing to stay in Canada, the widest gap among comparable secession referendums. Polls had put support for separatism at barely one in five before the vote was called, and the piece traces how that small minority still set the political agenda.
— via The Conversation — Canada, Jared Wesley, Professor, Political Science, University of Alberta
