The fate of the province five million people call home will be up in the air for the next five months, as everyday Alberta voters mull a serious question: Do we stay or go?

Global News explores the issues at the heart of the Alberta independence movement and conversely, the efforts to nip it in the bud and stay in Canada, in 'Road to the Referendum.'

Treaty 8's grand chief said First Nations will stop the referendum in any way they can, including getting in the way of industry, or, in his words, 'getting out on the highway.'