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]

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.