Posted on 02/03/2026 12:24:33 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
The leader of a Canadian separatist group pushing for independence for the province of Alberta said "the Trump administration shows Albertans far more respect than is shown to Albertans by the government in Ottawa."
Jeffrey Rath, leader of the Alberta Prosperity Project (APP), made the comments in an interview with Canadian Television (CTV) on Sunday, when he was asked if he could understand how some may "view the idea of people here meeting with a government that has spoken the way it has about this country as a whole as problematic."
Newsweek has contacted the APP, via email, for comment.
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He’s not wrong.
He gets no respect....
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
I was so ugly when I was born the doctor smacked my mother.
—Rodney Dangerfield.
I love it. How about we swap Minnesota for Alberta?
If Alberta votes to leave Canada, I can guarantee the Trump folks will not let them fail. We have the resources to nurture them along and maybe see them prepare for statehood.
Ian Tyson...Alberta, don’t know if he was born there.
Keep Minnesota, Tell Albertans they can keep whatever they can conquer in Minneapolis St Paul. That’s where the trouble is.
Chinese Communist Ottawa
Offer them protectorate status. The most conservative Canadians would be RINOs at best.
They need nothing in particular to succeed. They already have Texas-levels of oil production with only 15% of Texas' population.
Remove Ottawa-Davos' hand of stifling taxes and green regulation, and Alberta would immediately become very rich.
Good idea.
Well duh, why would there be a separatist movement if not for that? Trump wants to develop oil resources, Ottawa has been negative since 2015 (it was positive under Harper’s conservative government from 2006 to 2015). Mark Carney has been signalling that he has a different set of priorities than Justin Trudeau and we’ll need to wait and see if that turns out to be true and relevant to actual policy decisions, but to date he has made some progress on the file, agreeing with Alberta premier Danielle Smith that a pipeline is needed. The main opposition to that comes from the BC provincial government and certain other political elements of the left (including Quebec) although the proposed pipeline(s) don’t go through Quebec.
Canadians generally believe that if the pipeline project proceeds, the separatist movement will lose most of its momentum and even with that, no indication it can win a referendum. Not everybody in Alberta cares equally about this issue and not everybody in Alberta wants to roll the dice on separation. Also as far as Trump’s reaction is concerned, that’s only valid to Jan 20, 2029. It could be almost then before any referendum is held and there’s no really good polling on how many pro-independence Albertans are also pro-statehood, it would not be even half probably because what’s the point if Democrats are running the USA?
An interesting sidebar to this issue — British Columbia is politically divided just like WA, OR and CA are (and NV, CO) with urban liberal-socialists-greens and hinterland conservatives pro-resource development cultures clashing.
In BC, there is a leadership race underway for the opposition Conservatives who hold most of the seats inland from the coast. It has not yet become a leadership issue but may, whether to support partition of BC and potential alliance with Alberta if they proceed to a referendum. I don’t think partition would necessarily be achievable in BC as the voters are split pretty close to 50-50 between the two camps, but the camps are very much regional in nature, there isn’t a lot of disputed territory. Greater Vancouver, Vancouver Island and parts of the north coast (to Alaska) are the socialist stronghold. If Alberta goes, there will be considerable pressure on the BC government to allow a partition referendum. No province has had a partition in modern times but Newfoundland did acquire what was once the Labrador Territory (a similar status then to Yukon now).
The Liberal Party of Canada is all about patronage and power, ideology is secondary to that. If they thought it would be necessary to survival to drop green policies altogether, they would do it with little concern, their green stance in recent years has been largely to prevent votes draining off to their left. The only thing most of the senior Liberals care about is retaining power. They know that losing Alberta would end their gravy train. If the equalization program has to be modified to keep Alberta in confederation, they will do that too, but they wouldn’t want to lose all of the cash flow, or there would be nothing to fund enormous patronage projects. The Canadian federal civil service is basically a hiring project for the youth of Liberal families. If you somehow get in there from a conservative or NDP family, you find all doors blocked to promotion and behind the scenes agitation to have you removed. It doesn’t matter if you’re a woke socialist either, that’s no good, you have to be Liberal and preferably Laurentian Liberal and ideally “United Empire Loyalist” Liberal. That’s the ticket to a nice comfy position (to call it a job would be inaccurate because a job involves work).
We welcome you; and would gladly swap Minnesota for you in a trade.
The truth of the matter is that the Albertans are more American than many of our east and west coast imposters. Long live the people of Alberta!
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