CHARLOTTETOWN - The Premier of Prince Edward Island, apparently someone named Rob Lantz, released a statement demanding a response from Ottawa on the 2019 separation referendum that resulted in the province declaring independence from Canada. According to most residents of PEI, this triggered a Canadian constitutional crisis, despite no one outside the province having heard of this vote or its result in the last six years.

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Alex Jennings, associate secretary to the Deputy Chief of the Prime Minister’s Office, acknowledged Ottawa receiving the formal declaration from the province but confessed that the staff “thought it was a joke from New Brunswick.”
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