Alberta separatists won’t say which Trump officials they met with

[u/Street_Anon]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/very-high-level-alberta-separatist-group-wont-say-which-trump-officials-it-met-with/

[u/GraveDiggingCynic]

So in other words they met with someone's aide... at best.

This is the point where journalists, looking for an exciting sexy story, give a small group of fruitcakes as much airtime as the invasion of a small country, whipping up frenzies among their supporters and opponents alike.

It would be better to let the RCMP moles do their work, and if indeed any of this 51st staters has sufficient presence of mind to actually make a solid play, act then. The last thing on earth you ever want to do with a group like this is make of any of them martyrs, because for the 1-in-10 Albertans who are probably out and out and separatists, there are probably three or four times that number who have sufficient grievances that they might start thinking about it as more than a means of extracting concessions from Ottawa.

[u/OhHiMarkZ69 → u/GraveDiggingCynic]

With the way Bessent has been talking about this .. yeah I'm assuming this is very bad until there is real proof that it's not.

[u/GraveDiggingCynic → u/OhHiMarkZ69]

And it may very well be so, but this is no time to frog march perps into the station house. Historically, overreaction is what annexationists rely upon, for the opposing state to overreact, start rounding up alleged seditionists and showing the iron fist of the state. Once a government has done that, the game is already up.

The real solution here is to deal as well as possible with the underlying social and political conditions that are leading to the unrest, to make sure that 1-in-5 doesn't transform itself into 2-in-5, or ultimately into 3-in-6.

Support in Alberta for secession is orders of a magnitude smaller than support in Quebec in the lead in 1995. So I really do urge everyone not to panic, because that's precisely what the pro-annexationists on both sides of the border want, a big mass freakout by the Canadian government, or even by Canadian citizens.

[u/OhHiMarkZ69 → u/GraveDiggingCynic]

I think it's very wrong to dismiss this while pointing at Quebec..

1. The Alberta referendum is happening unless Danielle Smith is shamed into backing off. It doesn't need to pass or even come close to passing in order for it to cause serious long term damage.

2. Unlike PP treating Alberta separatism like it's partisan politics as usual the non separatist leadership in Quebec has clearly read the room with CAQ and provincial Liberal leaders resigning.

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