Decision to approve Alberta separation petition was ‘unreasonable,’ judge rules

CBC: The decision puts the future of the independence petition, which Stay Free Alberta said has garnered more than 300,000 names, in question.

In two decisions issued Wednesday, Justice Shaina Leonard found that chief electoral officer Gordon McClure made an error in law to approve the second citizen’s initiative petition and failed to consider an earlier decision that said separation would violate Treaty rights. 

Leonard’s conclusion says there was an error of law, “rendering the [chief electoral officer]’s decision unreasonable.”…

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