According to the Premier’s Office, Jason Kenney will announce his second referendum at the McDougall Centre on Thursday.

Albertans will already be voting on a review of the federal equalization plan in October, but will now also be asked if they want to end the twice-annual time blip.

According to results of a public survey commissioned by the Alberta government, 91% of Albertans support making Daylight Savings the permanent time year round. This would mean more daylight in the evenings year round.

While the overwhelming majority of Albertans want to scrap the time change that is blamed for increasing heart attacks and car accidents every spring season.

Airline industries have been the largest lobbying opponent to what would otherwise be an easy decision. Airlines claim that there would be costs associated with changing flight times and schedules that they do not want to bare the burden of.

That was apparently enough to stop the previous NDP government from changing the law – which was floated by them in in 2017.