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Related: About this forumFox News, Newsmax give oxygen to small far-right Alberta group that wants province
to become the 51st American state.
Bunch of wackos being given a platform by wacko "news" outlets.
A tiny far-right Canadian separatist group pushing for Alberta to join the U.S. as the 51st state got a publicity boost when right-wing outlets Fox News and Newsmax reported about its existence Tuesday, in the latest fringe movement for Albertan secessionthough the groups hopes of breaking away from Canada are a tremendous longshot.
An anonymous source from the group, which launched in opposition to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeaus Covid-19 restrictions, told Fox News he had an affinity toward the U.S. because of its freedom, Constitution and just the entire Republican system versus the monarchy here, which is really a pseudonym for dictatorship.
More recently, the group, which only has 67 members on Facebook and 74 Twitter followers, has risen to prominence among right-wing networks for its resurrection of a longstanding movement to redraw the U.S.-Canada border around the oil-rich, heavily conservative province (Forbes has reached out to The Alberta 51 Project for comment).
An anonymous source from the group, which launched in opposition to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeaus Covid-19 restrictions, told Fox News he had an affinity toward the U.S. because of its freedom, Constitution and just the entire Republican system versus the monarchy here, which is really a pseudonym for dictatorship.
More recently, the group, which only has 67 members on Facebook and 74 Twitter followers, has risen to prominence among right-wing networks for its resurrection of a longstanding movement to redraw the U.S.-Canada border around the oil-rich, heavily conservative province (Forbes has reached out to The Alberta 51 Project for comment).
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/05/16/what-is-the-alberta-51-project-hard-right-canadian-separatist-group-gaining-steam-from-fox-news/?sh=3b9a199342a1
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Fox News, Newsmax give oxygen to small far-right Alberta group that wants province (Original Post)
True Dough
May 2023
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TheRealNorth
(9,629 posts)1. Sounds like a bunch of Canadian insurrectionists and traitors
And they should be treated as such.
Spazito
(54,405 posts)2. They aren't even a blip on Albertans' radar...
and no surprise. There has always been some rump nascent group pushing for separation and a delusionary 'plan' to join the US.
Most Albertans lean conservative but they aren't crazy with a few exceptions such as the group in the article.
pwb
(12,199 posts)3. I don't recall them being invited to join us.
They need a whole shit load of States to want them. Are these little runt puke stations trying to make policy now. FM.
AZ8theist
(6,497 posts)4. Can we trade them Texas? Or Florida?
True Dough
(20,351 posts)5. How about Alaska?
Then we might have a deal!