Michael Coyne/The Globe and Mail: It is that party, and that leader, that slashed the number of signatures needed to trigger a constitutional referendum under the province’s Citizen Initiative Act – from 20 per cent of eligible voters to 10 per cent of the votes cast in the last provincial election, or from about 588,000 to about 178,000.
That is why the province, and the country, could soon be convulsed with a referendum hardly anyone wants, on a subject that is beyond the jurisdiction of Albertans to decide…