Yes, Danielle Smith is a separatist |
David Eby had clearly seen enough. Ahead of a meeting in Ottawa between the premiers and the prime minister, Eby decided to call out the leaders of Alberta’s separatist movement and their widely documented meetings with Trump administration officials. "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," he said.
It’s not clear whether those meetings actually meet the legal definition of treason, as experts told the Canadian Press. But they’re certainly treason-adjacent, and what really matters here isn’t the word’s precise legal definition but Eby’s use of it to shake people — especially his colleague in Alberta — out of their complacency. It certainly got Doug Ford’s attention, who told reporters that “this is an opportunity for Premier Smith to stand up and say, ‘Enough is enough.’ Either you’re with Canada or you’re not with Canada.”
It’s an opportunity that she decided to pass up, just like all the other ones that came before it. Instead, she went to bat for the separatists. “I’m not going to demonize or marginalize a million of my fellow citizens when they’ve got........