A court will determine the constitutionality of the separatist Alberta Prosperity Project’s (APP) proposed referendum question despite the group’s effort to have that review struck, a judge ruled Thursday.

The APP and its leader Mitch Sylvestre is seeking to ask in a referendum, “do you agree that the province of Alberta shall become a sovereign country and cease to be a province in Canada?”

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Last month, Alberta chief electoral officer, Gordon McClure, referred the group’s proposed question to the courts for their opinion on if it violates the Constitution.

Last week, APP lawyers argued that referral should be struck, saying it was premature and represented an abuse of process.

On Thursday, Court of King’s Bench Justice Colin Feasby told a downtown Edmonton courtroom

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