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[US Treasury Secretary] Bessent Makes Tone Deaf Claim Canadians Want to be American (www.thedailybeast.com)

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent promoted the idea of the province of Alberta voting to exit Canada as his boss lusts for U.S. expansion.

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“Alberta’s a natural partner for the U.S. They have great resources. The Albertans are very independent people,” Bessent said. “Rumor is they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not.”

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[-] AGM@lemmy.ca 27 points 4 days ago

It's much more than just an ignorant statement. The US is actively supporting the secessionist movement in Canada. The State Department has met with the leaders if the Alberta secessionist movement in Washington to support them and told them they would immediately recognize Alberta as a country when the time comes. No doubt there is funding flowing to the secessionist movement from the US. Bessent is also not just some innocent guy pushing numbers around for the economy. He admitted to engineering the currency crash in Iran as part of their regime change plan and called it "economic statecraft."

The US is working to undermine Canadian sovereignty. This is the same bullshit the CIA does around the world, and they've been working on it for a while in Alberta.