I once looked into whether Danielle Smith's known instances of collusion with Donald Trump against the territorial integrity of Canada constituted literal treason, and found that it did according to the relevant laws . But it appears that the feds are unwilling to arrest and try her for treason, for fear of the backlash among the Maple MAGA crowd.
this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2026
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The consequences of not enforcing laws are, severe. Case in point, the US.
Does Alberta not have private prosecution available?
Arrest those who would provide the backlash too. If law is good enough for traitor, it's good enough for supporters of traitor too.
I'd say arrest her and wait for the backlash then arrest those who commit crimes.
last thing you want is to set a precedent that everyone on a 'side' is a criminal. wait for the crimes.
If your side is "I don't like the fairly elected government so let's go against the people's will and secede while selling off the land to a wannabe dictator", then I'm sorry, you ARE a criminal traitor.
Trump should hang here down south
Squash them now. We tolerated the tea party and the billionaires poured billions into the movement and it became MAGA. Billionaires are pushing hard to dismantle world democracies. I wish we had started crushing these billionaires before they had any army of idiots brainwashed.
This is treason.
How is this not illegal? Shouldn't they be in jail for treason?
Alberta separatists are traitors, selling AB out to the fascists down south
What is most revealing is they are willing to sell natural resources for pennies on the dollar which is proof they dont actually care about the betterment of Alberta. This was always grievance (aka prejudice) politics. Maple MAGA is an extremists movement.
"Pennies on the dollar" for something they otherwise wouldn't be allowed to sell, is still a massive windfall. These people are not just traitors to their country...they're thieves.
they want to be the Vichy state
The liberals in power will never label them as such because they're all in the same fucking camp
Where is RCMP and CSIS in investigating this treasonous corruption?
I will have to look this up again but the clause that allows for Provinces to possibly leave the Federation has a stipulation that this must be done free of foreign interference. Basically what they are doing has been invalid from the start. When the idiots in Alberta were astroturfed by outside influence to believe that there is a desire for separation, it was already technically invalid. Since they are openly collaborating, it is clearly invalid and parliament can't accept the result of whatever crap they do. Danielle Smith and the UPC know this and her actions make a lot more sense when you understand that they can do whatever and they know they will never have to deal consequences of running Alberta as a country. The sad part is that conservative politics are so garbage they are doing this instead of helping people.
Servitude is not fucking independence!
I come from one of the most conservative little towns in all of alberta and seppies have always been first and foremost, maga/wannabe americans. Since at least the 1980s.
And none of these people are well educated nor well traveled. I don't think I know a single seppie who has been to europe.
The Putin playbook, side with the separatists and viceversa.