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.
This would also be a great time to turn a spotlight on how exactly which US owned media outlets are responding to this accurate description of an active attack on our sovereignty as a nation. I really think it’s time we start revoking licenses from foreign corporations pushing this initiative and refusing to address it clearly to provide cover as it infiltrates our society, and start awarding more attention and credibility to Canadian operated media. I’m wary of anyone claiming it’s “dangerous language” to label individuals while completely ignoring the danger of annexation from an openly aggressive state and the direct connection between the two. Don’t think it’s an issue? Do even a cursory online search of who owns our private news distributors and tell me there’s no vulnerability. People, especially conservatives want you to doubt CBC as state run media, but fully endorse completely unaccountable private media that has foreign ownership and is motivated by ideology accordingly. No media are perfect, but only one of these institutions relies primarily on the Canadian public for input and support, and that’s where accountability comes from.
Please, observe media critically and build your literacy, it’s more important than ever.