Reports of meetings between Trump officials and a separatist group from Canada

High-ranking officials from the administration of US President Donald Trump have held three meetings since April of last year with representatives of the Alberta Prosperity Project (APP), an extreme right-wing separatist group that promotes the independence of the province of Alberta from Canada, reported Financial Times, citing people familiar with the matter. According to the media, the meetings took place in a context of deteriorating relations between Washington and Ottawa and strong political tensions between Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. The Alberta Prosperity Project is seeking support from the United States for its secessionist agenda and has proposed to US officials the creation of a credit line worth $500 billion to help finance the province if an independence referendum, yet to be called, is approved.

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"The United States is extremely enthusiastic about a free and independent Alberta," Jeff Rath, legal advisor to APP who attended the talks, told FT. He also assured that he had a "much stronger relationship" with the Trump Administration than Carney. Initiative in question According to the report, the meetings took place with officials from the State Department and the Treasury Department. People close to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent indicated that there is no plan to study the APP's credit proposal and that Washington has no intention of financially supporting a possible secession process in Alberta. US officials insist that, in their contacts, they limited themselves to listening to the activists and that they did not discuss any form of support for independence. The recent prominence of the Alberta Prosperity Project gains momentum amidst a resurgence of the separatist debate in the province, closely linked to the oil and gas sector. However, secessionist movements have historically had limited support among the population.

Although the APP tries to forge alliances with other sovereignist movements, such as the Quebec separatists, and seeks to gain visibility on the national political scene, the provincial government of Alberta has distanced itself from its proposals. In parallel, a citizen initiative called Alberta Forever Canada has collected more than 430,000 signatures in defense of remaining in the federation, according to data cited by FT.