U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent commented on the separatist movement in Alberta on Friday — making him the highest-ranking member of the Trump administration to weigh in on the province’s politics.
While appearing on the right-wing station Real America’s Voice, Bessent claimed Canada won’t let Alberta build a pipeline to the Pacific, adding, “I think we should let them come down into the U.S.”
Bessent says there’s a “rumour they may have a referendum on whether they may stay in Canada or not.”
Organizers of the Alberta independence movement are collecting signatures in order to trigger a referendum in the province.
This does not surprise me at all because of this parallel. When researching Canada’s Avro Arrow, many articles came up mentioning how the US would wine and dine Canada’s military elites to convince them, and in turn convince the Prime Minister at the time to dump the Arrow. We all know what happened then. Political interference at its finest. We also know the reason was, hook, line and sinker, Canada’s dependency on the US for military equipment, and not mentioning one US Senator commented, We don’t need the compensation, “especially from Canada.” Alberta’s separatist movement had better think wisely.