Trump administration officials have reportedly held several secret meetings with far-right Canadian separatists who want to break free from the rest of the country.
U.S. officials met with leaders of the Alberta Prosperity Project, a fringe right-wing group of separatists who want the oil-rich western province to become independent, three times in Washington since last April, sources told the Financial Times.
News of the stealthy meetings comes at a time of especially high tensions between the U.S. and its northern neighbor. During a speech in Davos at the World Economic Forum, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke of a “rupture” in the world order, in what appeared to be a veiled attack on the trade and foreign policies of Donald Trump – but without mentioning him by name.
It’s not enough to foment insurrection in our country, now Trump is doing it in other countries, too???
Yeah, yeah. I know.
👨🚀🔫🧑🚀
We’ve done the latter since WWII, just not generally in allied countries.
Edit: ooof - just now seeing the “always has been” emoji. I’m owning it… whatever.
American oil corporations have been financing those separatist groups and their astroturfing campaigns in Alberta for a while now. I wish the Canadian government called it for what it is. They are trying to make Alberta Canada’s Crimea.
At least Eby was willing to say it directly.
Hate to say it but I agree with you. I just find Eby to be an asshole who never should have been accepted as the leader of the BC NDP. He treats his constituents like shit, then turns tail when he gets backlash.
But as the old saying goes a broken clock is right twice a day.
And AB will be TINY cause they can’t give away land that’s not there’s. Ie. Indigenous land.
I previously linked to a map of Alberta that shows the land that isn’t indigenous.
It’s a really small and disconnected area.
Kind of like the number of Albertans who want to separate.
My recommendation: they should just move to Idaho or Montana and become Americans.
Where? Just looked through your comment history and can’t see the map.
Well that’s annoying; my history only seems to go back 6 months; I added it last July I think. I’ll see if I can find it again; it was an official governmental map.
[edit] This isn’t the one, as it’s missing certain types of land, but it gives a feel for the situation: https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/04074608-dabc-49c6-b25e-840a4b2844ee/resource/3c91195e-9b5e-4c69-aa9e-963d4bec520e/download/ir-first-nations-reserves-and-metis-settlements-map-2025-10.pdf
Note that there’s also federal land that doesn’t belong to Alberta.
So an independent Alberta would be really REALLY small?! If I read this map correctly.
His threats for Greenland failed so now he is going directly for Canada. Again.
So it’s treason then?
Thats a treason
They could just emigrate to the US
But then other people would have it better than them. Right-wingers have to drag everyone down with them.
They don’t want to give the people of Alberta the choice of being ruled by them.
Hey Canada California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii would like to talk about an alliance of some kind
I know hypocrisy is a big part of international relations. But can you imagine the aneurysm this administration would have if they found out that the Canadian government had been having covert discussions with fringe separatist groups in, say, Washington State? It would be tarrifs and tantrums up the wazoo. Hell, there would probably be troop build-ups along parts of the border and all sorts of crazy threats/actions.
But the other way around? Nah. It’s all about the land-grab and American exceptionalism. “Rules for thee but not for me.”
Us separatists up here in Washington are in favor of a state called Cascadia that includes BC in addition to Washington and Oregon (and maybe NorCal), so it’d be a little different.
Yeah we even have a flag picked out. That said BC’s inclusion is more of a “we’d love to have them if they were interested” than a “we have the right to the whole of the pacific northwest”
BC is Canadian. You can’t “include it” any more than you can take Alberta.
Feel free to split up the United States however you like, that’s your business, but Canada’s staying Canadian.
I don’t have anything good to say here, just that I personally have no intention of taking anything from anyone, and I support separatism only to the extent that it allows for better self-governance. Being extremely skeptical of Americans supporting separatist movements, especially right now, given that we have a long and storied history of annexing those “independent” groups immediately afterwards, makes a lot of sense.
Edit: I lost my train of thought while in a different thread and forgot the point I was trying to make: exactly because Cascadian separatism concerns Canadian sovereignty, it would be considerably less contentious for Canada to meet with Washingtonians who want independence than it is for Trump to meet with Albertan separatists.
Trump officials have met with traitors. Canadian traitors.
What else do you call people who would happily give up their own country to a neighbouring fascist dictator? Not even to appease him and save their people, but to actually support the orange shitstain?
Trump officials in Canada should be considered hostile enemies and eliminated with prejudice.
Canadians who conspire with the US should be arrested for treason and sentenced to life in prison without parole, without external communication privileges.
Looking for a Canadian Donbas it seems
Well this doesn’t sound like any bit of good news.
Foreign interference. That’s being said if AB wants to become part of the US they can fuckkk right off - you won’t be missed.
It’s nothing new. Trump is just a bit less subtle about it.
This would seem to fall in line with current foreign policy. Should we be surprised?
