{"id":449286,"date":"2026-02-27T23:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/449286\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T23:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:27:08","slug":"alberta-projects-deficit-of-nearly-c10bn-citing-low-oil-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/449286\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta projects deficit of nearly C$10bn, citing low oil prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last week, Alberta premier Danielle Smith announced in a televised address that she would put forward several referendum questions to limit immigration. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Albertans would be asked to vote on nine questions in total, including one that proposes charging newcomers without permanent immigration status a fee to access healthcare and education services. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The measure has been criticised by Naheed Nenshi, leader of the New Democratic Party opposition in Alberta, who accused Smith of &#8220;blaming and scapegoating&#8221; immigrants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This exercise is simply about distraction after distraction after distraction to avoid talking about how bad the Conservatives are with money, how bad they are with the budget, how bad they are with economy,&#8221; said Nenshi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith said that her government is attempting to take control of immigration \u2014 which is regulated by Ottawa \u2014 to give Alberta more autonomy over its matters, as some in the province look to separate from Canada altogether. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Support for Alberta&#8217;s independence movement remains low, but its proponents project they will be able to gather enough signatures to force a referendum. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If successful, the separation question, along with the immigration questions posed by Smith, would be voted on 19 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, Alberta premier Danielle Smith announced in a televised address that she would put forward several referendum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-449286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}