Fox News, Newsmax give oxygen to small far-right Alberta group that wants province

[True Dough]

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).

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

[TheRealNorth]

1. Sounds like a bunch of Canadian insurrectionists and traitors

And they should be treated as such.

[Spazito]

2. They aren't even a blip on Albertans' radar...

and no surprise. There has always been some rump nascent group pushing for separation and a delusionary 'plan' to join the US.

Most Albertans lean conservative but they aren't crazy with a few exceptions such as the group in the article.

[pwb]

3. I don't recall them being invited to join us.

They need a whole shit load of States to want them. Are these little runt puke stations trying to make policy now. FM.

[AZ8theist]

4. Can we trade them Texas? Or Florida?

[True Dough]

5. How about Alaska?

Then we might have a deal!