@lukaszukab.bsky.social:
Elections Alberta is concerned that separatists may be funded by USA.
I expect there’s also funding from Putin, Trump’s boss.
Alberta Government lawyer argues that there is no evidence of that, yet separatists refuse to file financial disclosure.
Why is Alberta Governement defending separatists in court?the corrupt Premier, expert traitor floor crosser, is their leader, that’s why!
@squee22.bsky.social:
They can’t separate and they know it. It’s a bluff and a weapon to create disorder. They just want to do harm. Vengeful angry people.
@donna6226.bsky.social:
shut this down now Canadadon’t expect anyone but ordinary citizens fighting these deplorable fuckers, I expect Carney is on the deal, and is helping. He certainly will not say or do boo, he’s a traitor too.
veecowl.bsky.social:
Now if only AB could also remove that pesky smith person & her corrupt UCP pals…
@sadworld.bsky.social:
Separatist movement is fueled by old people.old white racist people, who don’t seem to be able to do math or think for themselves, other than rage, fueled by the tall tales they are fed. Trump will eat them for lunch. He’s just using them to steal Alberta’s resources. Why would anyone want a polluted shit shack of a state, raped by mostly American oil and gas companies, that then sold to bit players to intentionally walk from clean up? No one in their right mind, would want Alberta, certainly not pay $500 billion for it when there are likely now nearly $400 billion in liabilities?
If they separate no more national healthcare!
No more child benefits
No more cheap daycare
Life gets more expensive
New from me: an Edmonton judge is hearing the first of three First Nations legal challenges against the Alberta separation referendum today. Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation’s focuses on the UCP’s Bill 14, which removed treaty protections from the Citizen Initiative Act
Arguments to begin in trio of First Nations challenges against Alberta separation referendum
A judge is set to begin hearing arguments Tuesday on the first of three legal challenges from First Nations aimed at halting a proposed separation referendum.edmontonjournal.com
Sturgeon Lake is asking for what they claim is a “narrow, targeted” injunction: a stay of the section of Bill 14 which removed charter protections from the CIA. “SLCN is simply asking for a return to the status quo” lawyer Orlagh O’Kelly says. “This is not sweeping, as Alberta says it is.”
FWIW, Justice Shaina Leonard hasn’t asked many questions during Sturgeon Lake’s submissions — I noted just one re: what the Citizen Initiative Act says re: counting signatures. So not much indication what she’s thinking.
Leonard is already a bit more involved as GOA lawyer gets going. Asks about the idea that removing Section 35 of the constitution could be put to a vote. “Why wouldn’t you consider whether that’s possible or constitutional before you put that to a vote?”
Justice Leonard: “Is it like a paper tiger? Do you end up having a referendum and then at the end of the day the GoA, because they’re not a member of or party to the treaty and they can’t necessarily violate the constitution, they can’t derogate treaty rights, and it’s all for naught?”
I would say the questions from the judge were rather lopsided in favour of Sturgeon Lake, e.g. Alberta got more Qs, especially about foreign interference. edmontonjournal.com/news/politic…
@adenmurphy.bsky.social:
This describes pretty well every single Alberta separatist influencer.
And this deplorable is who the Alberta deplorables want as their king, racist sadistic rapist pedophile madman in diapers with face painted orange:
@self.agency:
“Amy Spitalnick, the CEO of the JCPA, condemned the president’s remarks, saying in a statement that there were ‘simply no words to describe the danger of a U.S. president openly threatening to erase an entire civilization.’ She alluded to Jews’ history of facing genocidal leaders.”
When the Monster Took the Stage by Charlie Angus / The Resistance, Apr 07, 2026
Tonight the world stands frozen as the madman with the nuclear codes brags that threatening to destroy a civilization is how to negotiate with an adversary.
And over the weekend we watched him standing at the White House window beside a life-sized Easter bunny, shouting vitriol about committing crimes against humanity.
Terrifying.
But not nearly as terrifying as knowing that no one is stepping up to deal with this gangster shakedown politics.
We are watching the collective moral failure and complicity of America’s political institutions, courts, media, and the business class of the most powerful nation on earth.
And where are the allied nations? Hoping for the best that he won’t notice us.
We ask ourselves: how did we get here?
I will begin my part in the story back in the summer of 2016. I was in Cleveland, Ohio, when the monster took the stage at the Quicken Loans Arena to receive the crown of the Republican Party.
I was there as part of a Canadian delegation of parliamentary observers. I saw it with my own eyes. But even as I watched it go down, I really had no clue what was happening. And I wasn’t alone.
Millions watched on TV as the monster took to the stage. It was trashy. It was dumb. It was mean. We reached for the popcorn and treated the dying of democracy as if it were just another Botox and rage-blasting reality TV episode.
Without realizing it, we had entered the age of monsters. Because in this new dark age, there was no need for a secret coup. We all got to be part of the studio audience.
As for the criminal connections? The traitorous plots? The sexual abuse? The fascist designs?
Not hidden away.
They had been boasted about in rallies for months. Unprecedented coverage was given to the monster so that he could leave us in no uncertain terms what was at play.
We thought we were in on the gag. That he wasn’t serious. That at some appropriate deus ex machina moment, a television host would step on the screen and tell us that our political viewing would soon be returning to normal and dull.
Gerry Springer goes to Washington.
To be fair, a party convention is never the best place to take the pulse of American democracy. They are staged spectacles undertaken after all the deals have been cut and the winner assured. The most you get to hear from the “grassroots” are those affirmations from the various state delegates during the roll call of members. Each state delegation gets three minutes to present itself as caricatures from the heartland.
Hence, the reliance on symbols and caricatures, like the cowboy hats and “hoo-rahs” from Texas or the green Styrofoam pine trees adorning the heads of the Washington state delegates.
My experience in travelling to the convention was full of this sense of staged performance.
I was on a bus packed with the Alabama delegation. They were straight from central casting. One guy was decked out in the big black hat of the 7th cavalry and acting out like the nutter colonel in Apocalypse Now.Sounds like deplorables’ deplorable lawyer, Jeff Rath!
Another member of the bus party explained biblical prophecy through tidbits of amateur archeological knowledge he’d picked up on a recent tour of the “Holy Land”.
A heavyset old guy in a white seersucker suit spoke in a slow southern drawl, first explaining how to identify water moccasin snakes, then launching into the strategy for Alabama Republicans to control county-level voting.
Did I look down on them as rubes?
Most definitely.
I was just one of so many seemingly smart political observers who concluded that there was no way a nation as diverse and complex as the United States was going to be taken over by the mob that had formed around Trump.oh, i was sure Trump was going to win, both in 2016 and 2024. Human men want to rape, and rape kids, legally. And, they want to abuse, legally, whomsoever they want to abuse, including making their wives property. Trump is providing that, and I believe is why the Alberta separatist/51st staters want to join the states.
It wasn’t policy that drew Trump’s supporters; it was license.
Voters tired of being spoken to in sound bites or insincere platitudes revelled in Trump’s abusive disregard. And they wanted a piece of the action.Just like the separatist deplorables and Danielle Smith and her vile UCP.
The phenomenon is “political disinhibition”. It’s where people feel they can act out in real life with the same asshole entitlement that had previously been limited to online trolling.
Election year 2016 was the year of “political disinhibition,” but it didn’t feel like that in the city of Cleveland. Having written off the spectacle inside the Quicken Loans Arena, I spent a good part of the convention out on the streets talking with people, believing I could trust my instincts and find the real pulse of the United States.
I had expected street battles like Chicago ’68, but the huge street demonstrations in Cleveland seemed more like community fairs. Just as the Republicans had their George Washington and Abe Lincoln costumes inside the stadium, those outside preferred Uncle Sam and Lady Liberty.
When the two sides met, there was often more police than demonstrators, but there was no threat or violence. The people I met in bars and on the street were casual and friendly.
This wasn’t what we were seeing on television. This was the summer of Black Lives Matter and the Sacramento riot, where the far right and so-called ANTIFA fought in the streets.
In the online world, political discourse had totally broken down into toxic rage battles. The fractures spanned the political map. A few tech experts were raising the alarm that the breakdown of online discourse was being manipulated by foreign actors – particularly a group of online disruptors whose IP addresses traced back to Petersburg, Russia, or the offices of Cambridge Analytica.
But most people didn’t clue in on how their screens were manipulating their emotions. They accepted the proposition that the increasingly toxic online realm was indicative of the breakdown of American civil discourse.
I thought that as well. Which is why I was so surprised at the decency of the people I met outside of the convention.
As an official observer, I was able to attend side events where some of the Republican old guard discussed the state of Washington politics. Some of them had the look of shell-shocked prisoners of war. For decades, the party had built its political muscle by stoking the base with race-based rage.
But in 2016, a criminal conman tapped this rage and turned it against the Republican establishment.
The people wearing MAGA hats didn’t give a shit about the Republican Party. They revelled in how Trump trashed the party aristocracy – Bush, McCain, Rubio, Cruz.
In Cleveland, the establishment players were left on the margins, hosting small panel discussions about how difficult it would be for the Republican party to ever win again if they backed a leader who denigrated women as “bitches” (51% of the electorate) or Latinos as “rapists” (36 million voters)?
The journalists hung on their erudite words. Everyone knew this was a political train wreck in the making.
But in the arena, nobody noticed. They saw vindication, and they didn’t care that crooks, conmen and Russian puppets were the ones orchestrating the transfer of power.
Take Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort. His choice as campaign manager should have set off every alarm bell across the media and political establishment.
He had spent the previous 10 years in the pay of the Russian oligarchs, promising the kleptocrats he could be useful to Vladimir Putin because he knew how to undermine the Kremlin’s enemies in Europe and the United States.”1
This is how he landed the role as key political advisor to Victor Yanukovych, Putin’s puppet leader in Ukraine. In 2013, the Ukrainian people forced Yanukovych out of the country over his attempts to turn Ukraine into a Russian satellite.
An enraged Putin responded to the ouster of Yanukovych by invading the Ukrainian region of Crimea. It was the beginning of the long and brutal war on the Ukrainian people. Manafort then turned his attention to helping coordinate the undermining of Ukrainian democracy through his work for the pro-Russian Party of Regions.
Manafort made over $17 million working as a foreign agent for Russian interests. But he had spent most of it and by 2016 was deeply in debt. So why did this cash-strapped Manafort suddenly fly back to the United States and offer to work for Trump for free?
Author Craig Unger suggests that Manafort hoped to cut a deal on his debt to Oleg Deripaska (a Russian crony of Putin) by offering insider knowledge on the presidential campaign.2
Carter Page was also in Cleveland. The decision to appoint him as Trump’s foreign affairs advisor was another head scratcher. Page was militantly pro-Kremlin. As for his political judgement, a former colleague described him as “whackadoodle.”
Page was on the radar of both the FBI and the Russian secret service. This came from his habit of hanging out in the atrium of Trump Tower, meeting with men tied to the Russian FSB (the former KGB). The Feds were so concerned about Page’s pro-Russian links that they launched an investigation over “collaborating and conspiring with the Russian government.”3
Page flew to Moscow on the eve of the Cleveland convention to meet senior Kremlin officials. In one meeting, Igor Diveykin reportedly offered Page a dossier of information that would harm the Clinton campaign.
But Diveykin made it clear that the price for this information was that Russia expected Trump to be a good boy and play ball.
Diveykin explained that the dossier they had on Trump was very damaging and “Trump should bear this in mind.”4
The Russians didn’t disclose the nature of the “kompromat” that they had on Trump. Kompromat is the term used by the FSB (the modern KGB) for damning information that allows security forces to threaten blackmail with otherwise unwilling targets.
The threat that Page was supposed to deliver to Trump was as clear as could be.
Page returned to the United States and headed straight to Cleveland. He got there just in time to help put out a serious political fire on the convention floor. A fire that concerned Russia.
Among the various resolutions being brought to the floor was one put forward by Diana Denman, a longtime Reagan Republican. The motion was very in line with the traditional hawkish foreign policy views of the mainstream Republican party. It called for a strong response to Russian aggression against Ukraine and a commitment from the United States to supply lethal hardware for the defence of Ukrainian sovereignty.
The Russians wanted the resolution smothered. And they got their way.
Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, who was there as an “observer,” had hushed meetings with Page and senior campaign co-ordinator J. D. Gordon. Prior to the vote, the Ukraine resolution was turned over to the Trump team, where it was significantly watered down with promises of weapons support being replaced by the vague promise of “appropriate assistance”.
Denman saw Trump’s actions as a total betrayal of the longstanding “peace through strength” position of the Republican Party. “What’s your problem with a country wanting to remain free?” she challenged the Trump team at the convention.5Insane, that the Alberta deplorables think Agent Trump will be their highway to “freedom.” Dumb fucks, as dumb as Trump is. I don’t understand, if they love him and Nazi USA so much, why they hell don’t they move there? And beg Daddy Kid Rapist Trump for fully paid for ranches and expense accounts.
Nobody heard her.
Trump’s first action as a candidate for the 2016 election was to ensure that Russian military interests overrode the longstanding traditions of the Republican Party. Soon after, he made a public call for the Russians to intervene in the election and get him access to the stolen emails of Hilary Clinton.
Again, in the gong show atmosphere, such open treason and illegality like Smith, her separatists and the UCP were barely noticed. If we remember anything at all about Cleveland, it was the notorious “lock her up” chants.
The chant began with former General Michael Flynn, the campaign’s national security advisor. Flynn was so compromised by the Russians that he was soon to be arrested and locked up by the FBI. Rudy Giuliani led the second round of chanting. He, too, would face jail time for his work with Trumpand was disbarred.
But in true MAGA style, they turned the tables by throwing criminal blame on the Democrats. And the media dutifully carried their message.Just like Smith and her separatists blaming Ottawa for their own fuckups, greed, and ignorance-induced rage, getting them nowhere, breeding more rage and greed.
I was standing in the stands beside a group of suburban soccer moms when the chanting began. Lock her up! Lock up! I noticed that the women around me weren’t just chanting; they were shouting themselves hoarse.
In watching how quickly the rage filled the stands, I realized that Trump’s voters weren’t there for the economy. Or for the party. They wanted vengeance. On immigrants. On Hilary. On the establishment. They wanted a leader who would lock up their enemies and beat down the weaker. By any means necessary.
They were suckers for the online campaign to jail Hilary Clinton that was spreading like wildfire online through the hashtag #hilary4prison.
None of them knew or would have cared that this campaign was being driven by a Petersburg troll farm working for the interests of Vladimir Putin.
Long after 2016, the locking up moments came and all the criminal elements were the crew in Cleveland: Flynn, Guiliani, Manafort, Steve Bannon (follow up campaign manager), Michael Cohen (Trump’s personal lawyer), George Papadopoulos (campaign advisor), Roger Stone (key advisor), Rick Gates (deputy campaign Chair), Chris Patten (Cambridge Analytica operative and Republican hack).
In Cleveland, the Mar-a-Lago criminality and thuggishness were put on display for all to see. But we didn’t really see it.
Just like so many have failed to see it in the years that have followed. It was Trump being Trump. He was not smart enough. He wasn’t really going to do what he’s very clearly said he is going to do.
And now tonight, the gangster has the world by the throat, threatening to destroy a civilization.
Some still hold to the hope that it is Trump being Trump.and now that Trump failed, are raging that Iran didn’t get nuked. Insane cruelty-addicted people.
And for the rest of us, we don’t seem to know what to say except to ask ourselves, how did we get here?
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Unger, Craig. House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia. Dutton. 2019.
Carter Page Denies FBI Claims He was a Russian Agent. BBC. July 22, 2018.
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@bajaarizona.bsky.social:
“It wasn’t policy that drew Trump’s supporters; it was license.”
Charlie, in one sentence you encapsulated everything going on in 2016 and what continues to go on today. The absolute permission to be their absolute worst selves.yup, they want to be able to rape women and kids, and get away with it, and murder anyone not white, not their religion (christian) and get away with that too.
This is a terrific essay, thank you!
@cathiecanada.bsky.social:
According to the NYT, Trump just announced a “two-week ceasefire” – in other words, he is declaring victory and leaving. He thinks he can avoid impeachment or Article 25 by trying to put the genie back into the bottle – I hope he doesn’t succeed.
@celiebug.bsky.social:
The genie is too far out of the bottle. 70 representatives senators have declared the 25th amendment be used on Donald J Trump because if it’s incompetency, I’m sure, and his madman techniques of starting wars in killing people. He’s a war criminal. He needs to be removed from office immediately.He belongs in prison, along with his entire top Nazi kkklan of mass murderers or enablers of mass murder.
@loveandbe.bsky.social:
Thank you for writing !
The phenomenon is “political disinhibition”. It’s where people feel they can act out in real life with the same asshole entitlement that had previously been limited to online trolling.”
This ⬆️
@sheridanshores.bsky.social:
We got here because of a deeply conflicted Christian community in America that is begging for a saviour to cleanse their souls.so many of them rape kids. I don’t there is any chemical or forgiveness on earth able to clean those souls. How many of the Alberta separatists rape kids, is what I wan to know.
@gigibones.bsky.social:
It’s more about the fact that he felt comfortable saying he was going to annihilate a whole civilization than his TACOing
Omg, he MUST BE REMOVED
from the US
@tollerlover05.bsky.social:
I don’t know how he thought he was going to do that.
All of Iran’s allies would attack the US.
I think we all know he’s demented and itching to use nukes before he dies.ya, he thinks that’ll get him into heaven via Armageddon, but he’s also deeply sadistic, loves making others suffer, especially kids
Alberta First Nation argues separatists have no right ‘to petition for the breakup of Canada’ by Matthew Scace, Calgary, Published 19 minutes ago April 7, 2026, The Globe and Mail
A lawyer representing an AlbertaFirst Nation at a hearing to quash a potential independence referendum in the province said Tuesday that the vote would violate long-established treaties and argued that separatists have no right “to petition for the breakup of Canada.”
Orlagh O’Kelly, counsel for Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation, said in her opening arguments that the case is “foundational to the continuation of the numbered treaties, the maintenance of the treaty relationship and, as a consequence, Alberta’s continued existence in Canada.”
Ms. O’Kelly argued that “there is no unbridled right to petition for the breakup of Canada, nor is there unbridled parliamentary supremacy.”
The three-day hearing will see Court of King’s Bench Justice Shaina Leonard decide whether to suspend Alberta’s pro-independence petition, which has separatists trying to collect the nearly 178,000 signatures needed to force a referendum on leaving the country.
Sturgeon Lake, a band in northern Alberta, is suing the Alberta and Canadian governments and the province’s chief electoral officer hoping to get an injunction quashing the petition.
The judge heard arguments from the First Nation’s lawyer in an Edmonton courtroom about how a secession vote would undermine First Nations’ treaty rights and leave the province vulnerable to foreign interference, among other concerns.
Some Alberta First Nation leaders, including Sturgeon Lake Chief Sheldon Sunshine, attended the hearing in-person, along with more than 100 other people who attended virtually.
An online chat attached to the hearing was overrun with a back-and-forth between independence supporters before it was shut down by court officials.Dirty fuckers, always cheating and or pissing on the rules or everyone else.
This week’s hearings follow several changes to Alberta’s direct democracy laws passed by Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party government that have increased the likelihood of an independence referendum and galvanized the province’s separatist movement. While most public-opinion polling shows support for independence in Alberta at around 20 per cent to 30 per cent, the movement has had a very active public campaign.
The Premier has said an independence vote could be added to a referendum ballot she has scheduled for Oct. 19 where the province has planned questions on immigration and other constitutional issues.ya, cause they’re so fucking racist, cruel and inhumane – right up loser Pedo Trump’s alley.
Alberta separatists making alternative plans to force referendum if they lose court challenge
Last spring,traitor Ms. Smith substantially reduced the number of signatures needed to force a constitutional referendum to nearly 178,000 from about 588,000.I want to know how much money she was paid to do that, and abuse the majority that do not want to separate. Last week, independence advocate Mitch Sylvestre said organizers had reached that goalI think he’s lying. I’ve learned not to trust a word the traitors spew; I for sure don’t believe any of the deplorables’ ring leaders, one month ahead of the May 2 deadline to deliver the signatures to Elections Alberta for verification.
Also, in December, the Alberta government legislated additional changes to the Citizen Initiative Act that removed the safeguard requiring referendum questions to comply with the Canadian Constitution. However, the changes also mean the Alberta government wouldn’t be forced to implement the results of a referendum if doing so would violate the Constitution.
Ms. O’Kelly is asking Justice Leonard to reinstate the Citizen Initiative Act’s constitutional protections and suspend the independence petition.
The Alberta government is scheduled to provide its legal arguments later Tuesday afternoon.
In its submission to Justice Leonard, the province says Sturgeon Lake’s legal arguments are “premised on speculation about potential future outcomes” and that “foreign interference has never required Canada to stop a democratic process.”The UCP, Smith, the separatists and their tricks, and petition, are not democratic. They hate democracy, that’s why they want to join mass murdering fascist ultra racist Trump kid raping regime.
“The injunction would prevent legislation from operating and stop the flow of ideas before reaching the government.”FFS. The UCP, like all con gov’ts in Canada, hate the charter because it protects rights of all Canadians, not just white christian bigoted racist fuckers.
@lukaszukab.bsky.social:
On behalf of #ForeverCanadian, I am looking forward to supporting the Cree Nation at the Edmonton Courthouse tomorrow morning.
First Nations are correct. They proved it in the Court few months ago. The separatist question undermines Treaties and our Charter.
@safetyinnumbers.bsky.social:
This is some really generous language.
The person in white robes and a pointed hood standing in front of a burning cross paints a picture which many see as possibly, vaguely related to racism…
@marks4real.bsky.social:
Traitors talking to con artists thinking they will benefit. Stupid is as stupid does.
A rally outside the Alberta Legislative Assembly in May 2025.NurPhoto (NurPhoto via Getty Images)
@thebreakdownab.bsky.social:
“Secret meetings with representatives of the U.S. State Department, the open support of figures from the MAGA movement, and the possibility of a referendum this fall… paint a picture in which many see the shadow of foreign interference.”
@moe-rosie.bsky.social:
Of course this is where they are taking Alberta .. that was the plan all along not independence
@asskickerleague.bsky.social:
At what point does their actions constitute actual treason against Canada?
@fagankara.bsky.social:
Probably more likely sedition since treason has very specific criteria
@mrrochester.bsky.social:
This tired, old, embarrassing Albertan whining is no surprise, even with this new US involvement. And, exactly as always happens, the moronic movement will fail. Alberta deserves no special treatment from the feds or other provinces, and never has.
@stsuous.bsky.social:
It is not a separatist movement if they want to join another country is it? They want to separate but not be separate?
@theyycmonk.ca:
Treasonous, immoral deplorables.
@mlm7.bsky.social:
On a positive note I think this hurts “the cause”.
@mairesiobhan44.bsky.social:
This is treason!
@farmer-jan.bsky.social:
Considering MAGAs actual success rate in terms of prosperity – a resounding failure. How do these people keep on believing that this is a good idea?
Donbas 2.0 is a real danger. We cannot expect our sovereignty, be respected. We must enforce our sovereignty.
#abpol#cdnpol#RecallThemAll because the #UCP are traitors.
They elected an idiot, floor crosser who lies as she breathes & is also easily manipulated. She’s even turned on those who purport to have elevated her.
DanielleSmithIsUnfitToLead#ableg#abpoli#cdnpoli
Separatist movement in Canada’s Alberta province finds allies in Trump’s circle, An association is collecting signatures for an independence referendum in the country’s conservative stronghold by Irene Serrano, Montreal, APR 02, 2026, EL PAÍS e
In the middle of a trade war and Donald Trump’s threats to make Canada the 51st state of the United States, Canadians are watching in astonishment as figures close to the president embrace a minority separatist movement in the province of Alberta. Secret meetings with representatives of the U.S. State Department, the open support of figures from the MAGA movement, and the possibility of a referendum this fall — for which signatures are already being collected — paint a picture in which many see the shadow of foreign interference.
Located in western Canada, Alberta possesses the world’s fourth-largest proven oil reserves, behind only Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. The province is a conservative stronghold in a country governed by the Liberals for over a decade, boasts the highest GDP per capita, and is a major contributor to federal financesnot as much as Ontario or Quebec. However, energy and environmental policies driven from Ottawa as required by international agreements FFS have generated increasing tension between the province and the federal government, in a relationship that some Albertans consider exploitative.
Although support for independence remains a minority in the province, alarm bells rang when it became public knowledge that several leaders of the Alberta Prosperity Project (APP), the organization spearheading the separatist movement, made three strategic trips to Washington in 2025 to discuss the region’s potential sovereignty. Its co-founder, the controversial lawyer Jeffrey Rath — a proponent of conspiracy theories about an alliance between China and Canada to thwart secession — has revealed in recent interviews that he met with State Department representatives to discuss potential U.S. support for Alberta should the independence initiative succeed.
Rath claims to have discussed logistical issues such as the use of the U.S. dollar, border security, and even a $500 billion loan to finance the transition to a sovereign state. He also stated that at least one of these meetings, held in December, took place in a secure room at the State Department, where electronic devices are not permitted.
Although both the White House and the State Department have tried to downplay the meetings, asserting that no high-ranking officials participated and no commitments were made, for Patrick Lennox, former intelligence manager for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and a PhD in international relations, this latest meeting is particularly troubling: “You don’t walk into a secure room by accident. There was a reason why the meeting between APP and those who met with them at the State Department was held in a secure environment.”USA is running out of heavy oil, it’s frac’ing gets light oil. It’s failed in Iran and Venezuela (companies do not want to extract oil there, it’s dangerous and hard to get) to steal supplies, so I fully expect Trump, the kid rapist, will invade Canada next, with help from the Alberta “separatist” deplorables.
“It’s completely out of character when you consider the history of the relationship between Canada and the U.S.,” Lennox continues. “I can’t think of any other U.S. administration that would have agreed to such a meeting with a group in Canada that threatens to break up the country. The only way to understand it is that they see it as a way to make the threat of the 51st state a reality.”
A “natural partner” of the US
In recent months, several figures in Trump’s circle have spoken out about Alberta. The most controversial comment came from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who, on a television program, described the province as a “natural partner” of the United States, highlighting its “great resources.” Within Trump’s media ecosystem, political commentator Brandon Weichert, on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast, described Alberta as the “key piece” in the president’s plans for the Western Hemisphere, asserting that when Trump talks about annexing Canada, he is actually referring to Alberta. These voices have been joined by those within the MAGA movement, who support Albertan separatists on social media, portraying them as victims of Canadian oppression.Pfffft. They’re not victims, they’re stupid angry racist greedy pathetic sods.
Maria Popova, a McGill University associate professor of political science and expert on Russia’s war against Ukraine, finds strategic similarities with Moscow’s 2014 use of separatists in the Donbas region as a Trojan horse for its expansionist interests: “A much larger neighbor, showing interest in what is actually a very fringe movement, and trying to turn that fringe movement into a separatist one with an appearance of legitimacy,” she explains. “They seemed to emerge from nowhere and have been presented as what I have called in some texts ‘instant separatists.’”
Pandemic separatism
While Albertan separatism may not have been “instant” — secessionist movements have existed since 1930 — it has always been a fringe movement. The pandemic and government restrictions, says Lennox, created fertile ground for its resurgence: the APP was born out of what the former intelligence manager calls “collective paranoia.” The organization, which describes itself as “educational,” roaring laughter!!!! says it seeks to mobilize citizens for a referendum on the province’s sovereignty and independence. “They are not a political party in the strict sense. Nobody elected them, except themselves,” Lennox points out.
Tanya Clemens, a grain farmer from southern Alberta, recounts that it was precisely during the pandemic — “when we saw the federal government overreaching and making decisions without allowing us to ask questions,” she says — that she began to take an interest in local politics and collaborate with the APP. This is also the case for Chris Scott, owner of a roadside restaurant and gas station in the center of the province, who joined the APP, eventually becoming its interim CEO, after being arrested for violating restrictions imposed to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
Both Clemens and Scott identify as conservatives and defenders of individual liberties, which they say are threatened under the Liberal government.ya, well you harmful traitorous selfish fucker 51st staters threaten me. I refuse to be American, shittiest most evil mass murdering thieving country in the world. Danielle Smith, all past Con Alberta gov’ts, Brian Mulroney while he was alive and Steve Harper because they caused terrible damage to Canada, also threaten/ed me. PS Mark Carney is not a liberal, he’s more to the right than Steve Harper. They both cite a certain historical resentment, speaking of centuries of conflict with Canada, although they admit to having been unaware of the movement until 2021.
But if the pandemic ignited the spark of separatism, the April 2025 federal elections, won by Mark Carney’s Liberals, detonated the bomb. Adam Derges, an Edmonton-based financial advisor and evangelist for the separatist cause, asserts that “woke ideologies have changed the country’s values in a very drastic way,” explaining that, in the run-up to the elections, many like him hoped that a Conservative victory could “undo much of the damage the Liberals have done to the economy, to culture, to crime — to everything.” After losing the election, Derges saw independence as the only way to live in a territory entirely governed by Conservatives.What are you fuckers planning to do with the majority of Albertans apposed to your abusive shit to the rest of us?
Three months after Carney’s victory, the APP submitted a petition to the local electoral body to initiate a public consultation on a possible referendum asking Albertans if they want “Alberta to become a sovereign country and cease being a province of Canada.”
The petition was approved in January, and the separatist group Stay Free Alberta claims to have already gathered the 177,732 signatures needed to activate the processI believe they are lying, and have a plan to get their ring leader, traitor, Trump buddy, Danielle Smith, to use some illegal legal trick to not allow Elections Alberta to count the signatures (because they know they don’t have enough), and she will decree by her usually lying, that they got the required signatures without counting or verifying them. which must be submitted to Elections Alberta for verification before May 2.
Meanwhile, in Canada, political analysts, academics, and even various First Nations groups have been warning since the beginning of the year about the need to take action against U.S. interference in the form of disinformation and possible illegal financial support.
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