Canadian separatists reveal jaw-dropping details of secret meetings with Trump teams

Far-right Canadian separatists seeking to break up the country have leaked wild details of meetings with senior Trump officials.

The Alberta Prosperity Project, seen by many Canadians as “attention seekers,” says that at secret summits they discussed a range of sinister topics, from switching to the US dollar, according to NBC News.

Dennis Modri, co-founder of the group, told NBC News that border security, Canada’s pension plan, taxes, the national debt and possible currency reform were on the table. According to him, such was the “development of the independent army”.

“Alberta also needs its own military,” Modry said, “and is the U.S. willing to work with Alberta in developing an Alberta military? That’s on the table for discussion.”

The group is a non-profit organization and not a political party. Its goal is to break up the union of modern Canada and become an independent sovereign nation because of what it sees as overtaxation and overregulation in Alberta, a conservative-leaning oil-rich province often described as Canada’s Texas.

Members of the organization are also categorized by concerns familiar to MAGA voters, namely immigration and the growing partnership between Canada and China.

The group’s leadership claims to have met three times with “very, very senior” officials in the Trump administration, with a fourth meeting in the coming weeks.

Modry said he attended a trifecta of meetings last year: one in April, one in September, and one in December. Secessionist attorney Jeffrey Roth claimed the meetings were held at State Department headquarters in Washington, DC.

A senior State Department official said there would be no further meeting. They told NBC that no senior officials were present at the meetings, nor were any commitments made. The Daily Beast previously reported that APP was seeking a $500 billion credit facility to help financially support the province if the independence referendum passes.

Both Modry and Rath declined to name which officials were present, which they claimed were pre-ordained conditions for the secret summits. Modry also said the meetings were intended to “make it clear that we are not advocating for Alberta to become the 51st state of the United States.”

Early in his second term, President Trump famously harbored an obsession with making Canada the last part of the union, and his administration has repeatedly butted heads with the Canadian government.

On Monday, the president posted on Truth Social that Canada has “treated the United States very unfairly for decades.”

A former senior career US diplomat described the secret meeting with the separatists as “irresponsible as hell” and “highly unusual”, especially with a country so deeply tied to the US.

“It’s really irresponsible for the United States to engage with these kinds of people, because it encourages behavior that is not in the American national interest,” they told NBC News.

“The key issue here is how the current administration views the use of radical conservative groups as part of its foreign policy strategy,” said Michael Williams, a politics professor at the University of Ottawa.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney used a speech in Davos, Switzerland, last month to call out Trump for creating “disruption” in the existing world order. He also told reporters in late January that he hoped “the US administration will respect Canadian sovereignty”.

Also in Davos, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant appeared to try to stoke the flames of rifts in an interview with the right-wing streaming channel Real America’s Voice. Promoting the APP, he said: “They have great resources. Albertans are a very independent people; the noise [is] They can have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not.”

“Think you know something there?” Host Jack Posobiec responded.

“People are saying, people are talking,” Besant said. “The people want sovereignty. The people want what America has got.”

An Ipsos poll conducted last month suggests that many Albertans are happy to be part of Canada.