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The Canadian PM says U.S. President Donald Trump had ne'er raised the question of Alberta separatism with him
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, asked astir reports that U.S. officials had met separatists seeking independency for the province of Alberta connected Thursday (January 29, 2026), said helium expected the U.S. medication to respect Canadian sovereignty.
The Financial Times said State Department officials had held 3 meetings with the Alberta Prosperity Project, a radical that is pushing for a referendum connected whether the energy-producing Western state should interruption distant from Canada.
“We expect the U.S. medication to respect Canadian sovereignty. I'm always wide successful my conversations with President Trump to that effect,” Mr. Carney told a property conference.
Mr. Trump, helium added, had ne'er raised the question of Alberta separatism with him.
The APP, which says Ottawa’s policies are stifling the province, wants different gathering adjacent period with State and Treasury officials to inquire for a $500 cardinal recognition facility, the Financial Times reported.
Alberta premier Danielle Smith said she wanted to stay portion of Canada but noted that polls amusement 30% of the colonisation was fed up with what it saw arsenic Ottawa’s excessive interference.
Alberta is landlocked and Smith is pressing for different lipid pipeline to the Pacific Coast. That would person to transverse the neighbouring state of British Columbia, whose premier, David Eby, has ruled retired the idea.
Mr. Eby, whose relations with Smith are usually chilly, told reporters earlier that “to spell to a overseas state and to inquire for assistance successful breaking up Canada ... is treason.”
Last week, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told a vigor station, “I deliberation we should fto them travel down into the U.S.”
Asked astir a imaginable Alberta referendum, helium replied, “People privation sovereignty. They privation what the U.S. has got.”
Mr. Carney and Mr. Trump person repeatedly traded barbs successful caller weeks. Mr. Carney, who calls the U.S. President a skilled negotiator, suggests immoderate of Mr. Trump’s caller comments could beryllium tied to a reappraisal of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada commercialized pact that is owed to commencement aboriginal this year.
