Alberta, Quebec referendums likely would fail due to Canadians’ anxiety: pollster
By Canadian Press on December 31, 2025.
OTTAWA — A pollster says separatist movements in Alberta and Quebec are unlikely to succeed as long as Canadians feel a persistent sense of insecurity and anxiety about the future.
David Coletto, whose polling firm Abacus Data has been studying what it calls the “precarity mindset” in Canada for the last year, says that uncertainty would need to ease in order for a “yes” vote to succeed in either province.
Alberta’s election agency recently announced it has approved a proposed referendum question on the province separating from Canada, meaning the question could be put to Albertans in a referendum if organizers collect enough signatures.
In Quebec, Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is promising to hold a referendum on sovereignty during his first term if the party wins the general election scheduled for Oct. 5, 2026.
Coletto says the structural conditions that would support a sovereignty push in Alberta or Quebec are weaker today than they were in the 1990s.
Coletto says voters are more anxious, their economic uncertainty is higher, the geopolitical environment is more volatile and external threats have increased “the perceived value of national cohesion.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 31, 2025.
Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press
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Now more than ever Canadians need to stand united as Canadians, working together to build our country into the once great country it was . . . and that means we all need to stop trying to bring down governments . . . stop attacking each other viciously . . . stop disrespecting our neighbours and fellow man . . . and . . . work together, standing united!
We have watched society splinter into special interest groups who demand everyone respect them, while they disrespect others . . . as time passed, that was magnified to a point we now see that division grown to a point it may split our country.
Some foreign countries are wringing their hands in anticipation for Canada to split up so they can take advantage of the situation and in some cases, some countries have influenced that division.
Canada’s sovereignty has been under attack for the last 2 decades, with trade agreements taking small bites out of it and we must wake up and stand united to rebuild our country and protect our sovereignty . . . or we will lose Canada completely! There has been a noticeable change already in the last 25 years!
Stand for unity, not division! Say NO in any referendum on Alberta separating from Canada!
We have lost many of our freedoms we once enjoyed and part of that is because of the division sown by groups who have no understanding for what separating from Canada would mean!
We are facing another world war and if we are going to survive as a country we must unite . . . not divide!
Winston Churchill famously used the phrase “United we stand. Divided we fall.”