It’s 10% of the voting population. They really wanted their own separatist referendum to pass, so they did revise it downwards, but this one had already been submitted:
Since Lukaszuk’s petition was submitted before the signature threshold for citizen-initiated referendums to get to ballots was lowered to 177,000 in early July, his petition will need to collect around 294,000 signatures from eligible voters over a 90-day period.
It’s 10% of the voting population. They really wanted their own separatist referendum to pass, so they did revise it downwards, but this one had already been submitted:
Okay that makes more sense. Still hard to believe it’s come to this but heading the separatists off at the pass seems like the right call.