THE GUARDIAN: Alberta activists’ covert meetings with US officials revealed, outlining group’s increasingly emboldened efforts
Covert meetings between separatist activists in the Canadian province of Alberta and members of Donald Trump’s administration amount to “treason”, the premier of British Columbia said on Thursday.
“To go to a foreign country and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there’s an old-fashioned word for that – and that word is treason,” David Eby told reporters.
“It is completely inappropriate to seek to weaken Canada, to go and ask for assistance, to break up this country from a foreign power and – with respect – a president who has not been particularly respectful of Canada’s sovereignty.”
The revelations that far-right activists met US state department officials first emerged in a Financial Times report outlining the efforts a group of increasingly emboldened separatists are taking in their attempt to secede from Canada. » | Leyland Cecco in Toronto | Thursday, January 29, 2026
Imagine wanting to leave a first world nation for a third world one, where ill health in old age might bankrupt you, where approximately 20m people must live in trailer parks because they can no longer afford traditional housing, where up to 3 million Americans sleep in their vehicles because they cannot afford anything else, where between 530,000 and 650,000 American families file for bankruptcy at least partly because of medical debt. (That represents over 60% of all personal bankruptcies!) Noting, of course, that up to 32 million Americans simply cannot afford the astronomical costs of any health insurance at all, so they have to live without it. Then, further, approximately 35% of Americans, over 90 million people, live with inadequate health insurance, because they simply cannot afford the quality care needed! (Noting, of course, that in Canada, essential healthcare is provided free at the point of delivery.)
But apart from all the costs and negatives, Canada is an extremely beautiful country; it’s a haven for those seeking civilization on the frenetic American continent.
And these Albertans want to leave all that for the uncertainty of life in America? Unbelievable! They must be the Canadians who will profit from the casino that is Trump’s America, and who wish to assist Trump in breaking up Canada to realize Trump’s wet dream of making Canada the 51st state! — © Mark Alexander
