Alberta separatism gets Fox News attention after Carney-Trump meeting
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Some Fox News pundits suggested Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's recent remarks on separation and tensions with Ottawa could play into the larger Canada-U.S. negotiations.
The renewed push to have Alberta separate from Canada has caught the eyes of some pundits on Fox News, who are suggesting the discontent could play into the larger trade and security negotiations between Canada and U.S. President Donald Trump.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced this week that she doesn’t want Alberta to leave Canada but, if enough residents sign a petition asking for a referendum on it, she’ll make sure it’s put to a vote in 2026.
Smith — who delivered her speech a day before Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Trump at the White House — also presented a list of demands for Carney’s new Liberal government, and threatened to take steps to assert Alberta’s sovereignty if Ottawa didn’t address the province’s grievances.
Those remarks, and the calls for secession from some Alberta residents, played into the coverage of the Carney-Trump sit-down on Fox News this week.
“President Trump is sensing weakness and I think he smells blood,” Jeanine Pirro said Tuesday during a discussion on the popular panel show The Five.
“If there is a sense in Canada that the people aren’t happy, if the provinces that have talked about seceding are saying that the Canadian federal government is not concerned about them, it may be that Trump is sensing this and he’s going to target them, and that all of this (negotiations between Trump and Carney) is just kind of, like, another discussion, but it’s really about those places that want to secede.”
Pirro suggested Quebec also wants to secede, despite the sovereigntist Bloc Quebecois’ diminished seats in the recent federal election and recent polling suggesting Trump’s attacks on Canada’s sovereignty and economy have dampened the separatist movement.
Co-host Jesse Watters went even further in response to Pirro, suggesting Alberta alone could become America’s 51st state instead of Canada as a whole, as Trump has repeatedly called for.
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