B.C. Premier David Eby says Alberta separatists meeting with the U.S. administration and seeking financial backing is an act of “treason,” as the issue of national sovereignty loomed over a meeting between the premiers and Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday.
“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,” said Eby, ahead of the closed-door meeting in Ottawa.
He was reacting to reports that members of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration have held meetings with members of the Alberta Prosperity Project, a separatist group that is pushing for the western province to become independent.