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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

My fellow Canadians, if you want to be part of the USA, you can move there freely on your own. I encourage you to do so.

"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 meeting.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/eby-alberta-separatism-9.7066320

B.C. premier says Alberta separatists seeking assistance from U.S. is 'treason' | CBC News

British Columbia 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 Thursday.

CBC

@chris
Reminder: Eby’s day job used to be Crown Prosecutor. He fully understands the legal definition.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Jan 29

@crispius indeed

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@crispius @chris

I like his strong response, but meeting the definition of treason hinges on whether the US are using "force or violence" here (I don't think they are, at least not yet)

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Jan 29

@alessandro @crispius

considering the leader of the USA's propensity to threaten military action of late, I think it can be very easily argued that conspiring with that government is coming very very close to the definition of treason.

Particularly (3): Canadian citizen

(b) commits treason if, while in or out of Canada, he does anything mentioned in subsection (2).

(2)(c) conspires with any person to commit high treason or to do anything mentioned in paragraph (a);

(a) uses force or violence for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Canada or a province;

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/section-46.html

Criminal Code

Federal laws of Canada

Alice. 🇨🇦Jan 29

I stand with Eby. BC, and a 10 province + 2 territory Canada!

Paul Lalonde Jan 29

@Ratoncita Now I feel bad for either Yukon, Nunavut or NWT, not sure which.
3 territories.
@chris

Alice. 🇨🇦Jan 29

Oops! Sorry about that! I’ve only had 1 cup of coffee and I’m angry.

Alice. 🇨🇦Jan 29

*correction. 3 territory Canada

@Ratoncita @chris which territory are you kicking out?

Alice. 🇨🇦Jan 29

@driusan @chris

I corrected my mistake.

Alice. 🇨🇦Jan 29

@driusan @chris

And I’m old. When I went to school,there was 2.

dragonfrog Jan 29

@chris The news is full of all these events the separatists are holding - people gathering signatures for most petitions are setting up outside civic centres and walking through parks and stuff, while the separatists are travelling the province and booking hotel conference centres. Where is the money for all this coming from?

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Jan 29

@dragonfrog oil and gas and the USA I'm sure.

dragonfrog Jan 29

@chris I can't imagine the oil companies want independence.

They've gotten so much Canadian taxpayer money shoveled into them at every level. From memory TIMX is a $38 billion taxpayer subsidy to the oil industry - and growing, because it still charges well below the operating cost for every barrel of crude it moves.

The moment Alberta separates, Canada will stop subsidizing TMX operations.

So, it's gotta be the USA - making "treason" a very apt term innit.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Jan 29

@dragonfrog Most of the oil companies are American, so whether they get subsidized by the US or Canadian governments probably doesn't matter much at all. All they want is a regime that will keep their oil fields pumping, and right now the most oil-friendly regime outside of Russia and the Middle East, is Trump’s.

dragonfrog Jan 29

@chris Pumping through what pipeline though? Check out the "market access" section of this page https://www.aer.ca/data-and-performance-reports/statistical-reports/alberta-energy-outlook-st98/pipelines-and-other-infrastructure/pipelines

Of the total 851 m^3 / day pipeline capacity out of Alberta:

Enbridge - Eastern Canada / US via SK & MB = 532
Keystone - US via SK & MB = 97
Trans Mountain - west coast via BC = 141

Total that Canada can turn off the tap = 770 m^3 = 90.5%

Express - US direct = 49
Milk River - US direct = 16
Rangeland - US direct = 16

Total that Canada can't turn off the tap = 81 m^3= 9.5%

Pipelines | Alberta Energy Regulator

ST98 - Alberta is serviced by major export lines that provide the bulk of export capacity leaving the province.

Alberta Energy Regulator

dragonfrog Jan 29

@chris Sorry, that's thousands of m^3 / day. What's a few orders of magnitude among friends eh?

Daveography 🇨🇦

@dragonfrog @chris

"Paid protestors" was always projection

gypsyvegan Jan 29

@dragonfrog @chris The California secession movement has been backed by Putin/Russia from the start; most articles on this will cite that as being "since at least 2016", but the first ties trace back to 2003. The reports of Trump having met with the Alberta separatists recently brought all of this instantly to mind.

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/op_eds/2025/02/23/why-russia-wants-to-see-california-secede/

There's also this:

"In the late 1960s, the Kremlin considered cultivating Quebec separatists to further its own geopolitical ends, but eventually opted for more conventional means during the Cold War."

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/why-russia-loves-the-idea-of-california-seceding-214632/

@chris Maybe we do an exchange. We’ll come to Canada and the traitors can come to the US and live with our traitors.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Jan 29

@crdfilm seems fair!

@chris @Pinchy63 💯

@chris I would happily trade my place here in Colorado for somewhere like, well, like Manitoba. We have great weather and not at all prone to wildfires 24/7/366 nope, no siree bob.

Nate Allen Jan 29

@chris can we Oregonians just join you instead?

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Jan 29

@mossyfoot maybe?!

Nicole Parsons Jan 29

The oil industry...the most corrupt & fascist industry on the planet.

Lord Kelvin Jan 29

@chris @Npars01
#DanielDayLewis *almost* did a good enough job of portraying that in #ThereWillBeBlood

K_L_Cooper Jan 30

@Npars01 @chris

Robin Barton Jan 29

@chris Maple Maga sees being Canadian as an unimportant detail whereas being true to their ideology is everything.

Cedar Fen Farm Cedar Fen Farm Jan 29

Check where his investments are. Alberta gas and oil are layered with shell company investments, many incorpoated in the states.

Cass M 🇨🇦

@chris I wish they would just grant Albertans special refugee status…although they don't want Albertans, they want the resources to extract.

@chris I really wish it were as easy to immigrate between the US and Canada as that.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Jan 29

@solitha me too!

Cindʎ Xiao 🍉Jan 29

@chris There's a great website now for sponsoring any Alberta separatists you know in their dream to move to the USA!

https://sponsoraseparatist.ca

Sponsor a Separatist - Help Them Find Their American Dream

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Jan 29

@cxiao HAHAHA!

amazing.

Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐Jan 30

@chris TBPH, we could use more rational Canadians to offset the number of hosers we already have in America.

Canadians invading America might be the only thing that can save us from ourselves.

Just do me a favor and bring me some poutine and tourtiere. Oh, and some cold-pressed canola oil. That stuff is tasty.

Debbie Belair Jan 30

@chris Yup, let's send these lowlifes to their beloved country. They deserve everything that will come to them.

Compromise_bi_flag

@chris @vfrmedia IMO, fuck 'em.

Some Americans will hate them no matter what, because they're foreigners.*

Some Americans will think they're friggin' morons for giving up a relatively sweet deal in Canada in exchange for this shithole.

I, for one, have a pretty categorical tdistrust of anyone who WANTS to be part of America right now.

(* Well, OK, maybe not if they're white foreigners. 🙄)