Joseph Simons 🍁 🌱
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![PETITION INFORMATION
TYPE OF PETITION (choose one)
[checked] Legislative or policy proposal (requires signature from 10% of electors on the post-election day list)
[not checked] Constitutional referendum proposal (requires signatures from 20% of electors on the post-election day list, with the 20% threshold met in 2/3 of electoral divisions)
SUBJECT MATTER OF PETITION
Subject Areas of Petition (ie title): Alberta Forever Canada
[In Blue ink:] Received JUN 05 2005, Chief Electoral Office
Description of proposal (attach additional pages if necessary)
The applicant is motivated by
* The fact that Alberta's separation from Canada is being actively discussed.
* Since a referendum appears to be imminent anyway, it should be objective and not directed by special interest groups.
* Separation will threaten the Canadian as well as the Alberta economy, the personal wealth of Albertans, the Canadian citizenship rights of Alberta residents, the treaty rights of our First Nations, and have many other serious and negative consequences.
* We believe the majority of Alberta's residents are loyal Canadians opposed to any form of separation.
Therefore, we as represented by the signatory and applicant below propose a referendum on the following question:
Do you agree that Alberta should remain in Canada 7](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aiiavwhwbhn5bphrv77fqspq/bafkreiedumvmlzqvuy3llxammzwyagltutehbt6q7hrrzc3gk6tnyul4sa)
![A YouTube comment below [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jER_3vLjXsc] from @planepower8523 22 hours ago
A 2 lane road is capable of "handling" 14,000 motor vehicles each day. So that could translate to 1400 per hour (based on off-peak and night being slow). The video shows that this street never sees that much traffic. Being in Edmonton since 1992, that road has not changed and has never encountered that volume of traffic. The major arterials are 4 blocks to the North, and 4 blocks to the south. There are numerous school zones limiting speed (and therefore volume capacity) anyways. There have been numerous injuries and collisions due to the schools and road design, but the Province refuses to refer to the facts and traffic studies carried out over the decades. Now that underground infrastructure needs upgrading and also the asphalt is in such poor shape, the city used it as an opportunity to put this area on a "road diet” to make the neighbourhood more inviting. Road diets lower the infrastructure upkeep costs and keeps taxes low.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aiiavwhwbhn5bphrv77fqspq/bafkreigwltm433cdceiocxhehcwxpysva24oyicukcrta37aabu327kp5i)
