Trump Administration Encourages Alberta Separatism
Union leaders in Alberta and across Canada are sounding the alarm over what they see as an unprecedented foreign interference campaign: the Trump administration’s covert collaboration with Alberta separatists. Washington is openly embracing a secession effort in the oil-rich province that aims to fracture the Canadian federation and undermine workers’ rights.
Officials from the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Treasury have held at least three secret meetings with far-right fringe separatists who want Alberta to declare its independence and likely become a part of the United States, according to reporting from the Financial Times on Jan. 29.
