Be prepared to buckle your seat belts.  

The official decision on what the ballot looks like will come early in the new year, likely in February. 

The official referendum vote by Albertans, known by some as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s Big Beautiful Ballot, will come, the smart money says, in October of 2026. 

And, unless Chicken Little is right and the sky is falling, Albertans will proceed to vote on the Alberta government exercising more control over immigration. 

Almost eight in ten Albertans support the idea, according to professional polling done for the Alberta Next panel headed up by Smith, a group who travelled the province taking the political temperature of Albertans. 

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The Alberta Next panel recommends immigration be on the ballot.

“Federal mismanagement of immigration was a topic that generated a great deal of concern from respondents,” reads the report. 

“The Constitution is clear. Provinces have a strong role in immigration. Recent federal policy has not respected this and the government should consider........

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