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Fox News, Newsmax give oxygen to small far-right Alberta group that wants province [View all]
to become the 51st American state.
Bunch of wackos being given a platform by wacko "news" outlets.
A tiny far-right Canadian separatist group pushing for Alberta to join the U.S. as the 51st state got a publicity boost when right-wing outlets Fox News and Newsmax reported about its existence Tuesday, in the latest fringe movement for Albertan secession—though the group’s hopes of breaking away from Canada are a tremendous longshot.
An anonymous source from the group, which launched in opposition to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Covid-19 restrictions, told Fox News he had “an affinity toward the U.S.” because of its “freedom, Constitution and just the entire Republican system versus the monarchy here, which is really a pseudonym for dictatorship.”
More recently, the group, which only has 67 members on Facebook and 74 Twitter followers, has risen to prominence among right-wing networks for its resurrection of a longstanding movement to redraw the U.S.-Canada border around the oil-rich, heavily conservative province (Forbes has reached out to The Alberta 51 Project for comment).
An anonymous source from the group, which launched in opposition to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Covid-19 restrictions, told Fox News he had “an affinity toward the U.S.” because of its “freedom, Constitution and just the entire Republican system versus the monarchy here, which is really a pseudonym for dictatorship.”
More recently, the group, which only has 67 members on Facebook and 74 Twitter followers, has risen to prominence among right-wing networks for its resurrection of a longstanding movement to redraw the U.S.-Canada border around the oil-rich, heavily conservative province (Forbes has reached out to The Alberta 51 Project for comment).
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2023/05/16/what-is-the-alberta-51-project-hard-right-canadian-separatist-group-gaining-steam-from-fox-news/?sh=3b9a199342a1
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