In Calgary, Three Moods About Alberta's Looming Referendum
CBC News visited a library branch in Calgary to take the temperature on the referendum Alberta is heading toward. A few people there were excited to vote. Others were only just beginning to follow the process. Several said they were frustrated that Alberta was holding a referendum at all.
It's a handful of voices in one city, but the split it captures isn't yes-versus-no. Some of the feeling CBC recorded was aimed at the premise — at the fact of the vote rather than at how to cast it.
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Annoyance that the vote is happening at all is a different political animal from a no campaign. One disputes an answer; the other disputes that there's a question worth asking.
Some of that may be timing more than conviction. People who are only starting to follow a process can sound dismissive well before they sound decided.