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Elections Alberta completed verification for the Forever Canadian citizen initiative petition Monday.

The petition smashed through the threshold required for the petition to advance. The initiative required 293,976 signatures, or 10 per cent of the electors from the provincial general election. It collected 438,568 signatures.

With results now verified, the UCP government will have to adhere to the duties established in Citizen Initiative Act, which requires that the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly lays the proposal before the assembly.

Within 10 sitting days, the government is obligated to bring forward a motion to have the proposal referred to a committee in the legislative assembly.

The committee will then have to table a report with respect to the

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