Nenshi and Eby on the attack.British Columbia Premier David Eby says Alberta separatists who went to Washington in search of political support are engaged in treason and he will be raising the matter at Thursday’s first ministers meeting in Ottawa.
Mr. Eby was referencing a report in the Financial Times, which said U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration held covert meetings with Alberta separatists.
Jeff Rath, legal counsel of the Alberta Prosperity Project, told the FT the separatist group met with U.S. State Department officials in Washington in April and are seeking another meeting next month.
White House and State Department officials told the FT that administration officials regularly meet with civil society groups and that no support or commitments were conveyed.
“To go to a foreign country and to ask for assistance of breaking up Canada, there’s an old-fashioned word for that, and that word is treason,” Mr. Eby said. “It is completely inappropriate to seek to weaken Canada, to seek to go and ask for assistance to break up this country from a foreign power.”
Mr. Eby said Canadians need to speak with one voice on the issue.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent weighed in on Alberta separatism last week, calling the Western province “a natural partner for the U.S.”
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