Carney warns Alberta referendum risks Brexit-style outcome (opens in new tab)

Prime Minister Mark Carney warned Monday that Alberta’s planned Oct. 19 vote on whether to start legal steps toward a future binding separation referendum could become “a very dangerous bluff,” comparing the strategy of using a secession vote as bargaining leverage to the United Kingdom’s 2016 Brexit vote. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said last week the ballot would ask Albertans whether Alberta should remain a province of Canada or whether her government should begin the constitutional leg...