With the conclusion of a busy and tumultuous fall sitting of the Alberta Legislature, one would have expected some respite from any further policy drama.

Turns out the Alberta government had other ideas.

Even though the Legislature just debated and passed Bill 14, and even though MLAs have gone home for the holidays, the premier and her cabinet have slipped in one more significant change to Alberta’s referendum rules.

It was an order-in-council last week — that is, a closed-door cabinet edict — that threw up a significant new roadblock to a citizen initiative referendum petition, just as the government has spent weeks arguing that the process should be more permissive.

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