Analyst warns Eby’s language could push some ‘separatist-curious’ Albertans to become fully separatist
B.C. Premier David Eby is not backing down after calling the Alberta separatist movement seeking foreign assistance an act of treason — but one analyst is warning against using such serious language during a time where Canada needs to stand united.
Eby’s comments last week came amid meetings with fellow Canadian leaders in Ottawa, in response to reports that members of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration have met with members of the Alberta Prosperity Project, a group pushing for Alberta to become independent.
The group is seeking a $500-billion US line of credit from the U.S. Treasury to help bankroll the new country if they are successful in a referendum. An official with the U.S. State Department confirmed the meetings, but said “no commitments were made.”
“To go to a foreign country and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there’s an old-fashioned word for that, and that word is treason,” Eby said last Thursday.
In an interview on CBC’s The Early Edition on Monday, the premier doubled down on his comments.
Elby: a politician with the balls to call a spade a spade.
It’s why I voted for him.
Rally around him, even if your not from his province.
but one analyst is warning against using such serious language during a time where Canada needs to stand united.
We need to stand united - with the people who want to separate? So what, we’re supposed to tilt our heads, shrug, and say, “boys will be boys, donchaknow!”
Fuck off data analyst John Santos. Get bent.
Whether the word treason truly applies to the Alberta Prosperity Project’s meetings with the U.S. administration isn’t clear, but project co-founder Jeffrey Rath has called the characterization “defamatory.”
"It’s a childish temper tantrum on behalf of a spoiled NDP politician.”
Oh boo hoo, you treasonist, motherfucking bastard. You went to an antagonistic foreign state to talk about breaking up our fucking country. What did you think people would call it. I hope you rot in prison, asshole.
One thing we’ve learned from the US is that avoiding using accurate language to soften the meaning of things just lets the fascists take over.
The fact that this is even being treated as a debate is insane. Asking a foreign government to bankroll your political movement is already highly suspect. Asking a foreign government to bankroll your separatist movement is beyond the pale.
I can’t see how it would even work. Alberta doesn’t own all their land, they have a treaty with the indigenous population that gives them use, I assume that use would be void if Alberta “leaves” Canada
It is treason.
Well, yeah. By every metric, it fits the description.
Good! Cause it is! It’s a joke that anyone is saying it’s not.
They could always avoid calling out people for what they are and end up like the US - I’ve heard so many good things!
Awww, how can we be united as a country unless we mince words and actively coddle the people literally trying to separate??
Good, make the feds do something substantive about it.
