U.S. Treasury Secretary says “natural partner” Alberta should join U.S.
A top U.S. official has openly suggested that the resource-rich province of Alberta should break free from Ottawa and join the United States.
A top U.S. official has openly suggested that the resource-rich province of Alberta should break free from Ottawa and join the United States. While attending the World Economic Forum, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent remarked that Albertans “want sovereignty, but Ottawa is in the way.”
Some Canadian commentators are calling the U.S. official’s comments on a potential Alberta independence referendum this year “foreign interference.”
