Alberta Premier Wants to Make Recall Legislation More ‘Achievable’

A petition to recall Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek was submitted to Elections Calgary by the deadline of April 4, but without the number of signatures needed to remove the mayor from office. Landon Johnston, the man behind the petition, wrote on X: “72,200 signatures in 60 days – not enough to force the mayor to resign.” “But enough to start a conversation and a movement. The pressure is on council to shape up. This city belongs to us, and we deserve better from our elected officials,” he said in the post. It was a very high bar from the start. Under Alberta’s recall legislation, Mr. Johnston and the many volunteers helping him would have needed over 514,000 signatures within 60 days to remove Ms. Gondek from office, or 40 percent of Calgary’s population....