It’s a referendum on a referendum- or a bit of a referendum appetizer, if you will. Arguably, it’s redundant, too, since the Alberta government has already commenced a “legal process,” which is to appeal the court ruling that blocked the separatists and their binding constitutional question in the first place. If that ruling is overturned, there’s (apparently) 300,000 separatist signatures sitting and waiting to be verified which would indeed prompt such a referendum.