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TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Canadian<\/a> Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday compared Alberta\u2019s vote on whether to move toward independence to Brexit, calling it a potential \u201cdangerous bluff.\u201d<\/p>\n Danielle Smith, the premier of Canada\u2019s oil-rich province of Alberta, said last week a vote<\/a> would be held Oct. 19 on whether Alberta should stay in Canada<\/a> or take legal steps under the Constitution to hold a binding referendum on leaving.<\/p>\n Carney drew on his experience with Brexit in his comments. Carney was the governor of the Bank of England in 2016 when Britain voted to leave the European Union, and he helped navigate the central bank through it.<\/p>\n \u201cI saw firsthand what happened in the United Kingdom when the view was, \u2018Vote for this, it\u2019ll be soft and then we\u2019ll negotiate, etc.,\u2019 Carney said. \u201cThey\u2019re still 10 years later trying to undo what people didn\u2019t think they were voting for, but what they ended up having.\u201d<\/p>\n Smith\u2019s party didn\u2019t run on or mention a referendum in the last provincial election campaign.<\/p>\n Carney said the vote is not helpful when he\u2019s trying to attract investment to Canada. He suggested it is undemocratic.<\/p>\n \u201cIs it the democratic will of Albertans? Did they vote for this in the last provincial election? No, they didn\u2019t. It wasn\u2019t on the ballot paper,\u201d Carney said.<\/p>\n Smith has said she supports Alberta remaining in Canada. Some have compared her stance to the one of Britain\u2019s then-Prime Minister David Cameron ahead of the Brexit referendum, which he embraced as a way to manage a vocal faction of his ruling party while not wanting the U.K. to leave the European Union.<\/p>\n