🔴Alberta Separatists Obtained Private Voter Data on Nearly Three Million Albertans. A Court Just Ordered It Pulled Down.🔴

A court injunction was granted in Edmonton this morning forcing an Alberta separatist group to remove a publicly searchable database containing the private information of nearly three million Alberta voters. The injunction, granted by Court of King’s Bench Justice John Little at the request of Elections Alberta, targets a pro-sovereignty group called the Centurion Project, led by longtime political organizer David Parker, co-founder of Take Back Alberta.

The database contained the names, addresses, postal codes, phone numbers, unique elector identification numbers and electoral division information for 2,957,857 Albertans, drawn from Elections Alberta’s official list of electors last updated in May 2025. The Centurion Project had made this information publicly searchable through an app, allowing users to look up individual Albertans by name or address. A training video produced by the Centurion Project demonstrated the app’s functionality by looking up and displaying the personal information of former Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, a politician who has faced sustained threats throughout her public career.

Screenshots of the Centurion Project’s app interface, operating at thecenturionproject.ca, reveal the full scope of what was built. Upon creating an account, users were prompted to find themselves on the electoral list by searching their own name or address. They were then directed to a dashboard where they could search electors to claim, with the ability to look up any Albertan by name or address and assign that person to themselves as a contact. The interface showed assigned, pending and surveyed categories for each claimed elector. This was not simply a database that was accidentally made accessible. It was a purpose-built canvassing and voter identification tool designed to allow Centurion Project members to systematically work through Alberta’s electoral list, claim individual voters, and track outreach to them in support of the separatist cause. Nearly three million Albertans had their personal information loaded into this system without their knowledge or consent.

Elections Alberta traced the list back to the Republican Party of Alberta, a pro-independence provincial party founded in 2022, using a standard investigative technique of embedding fictitious names in each electoral list it distributes so that any leaked copy can be traced back to its source. The investigation confirmed the list in the Centurion Project’s database was the one legitimately provided to the Republican Party. How the data moved from the Republican Party to the Centurion Project has not yet been established in court. Republican Party leader Cameron Davies said the party had not received official communication from Elections Alberta and issued a notice to the Centurion Project that any information allegedly received from the party was not to be used.

Under Alberta’s Election Act, access to the electoral list is strictly limited to registered political parties, MLAs, candidates, election officers and constituency associations. Third-party groups are explicitly prohibited from receiving copies of the list at any time. Recipients are legally required to take all reasonable steps to protect the information from unauthorised use and may not share it with anyone for any purpose not expressly authorised under law. Violations carry fines of up to $100,000 and imprisonment of up to one year.

The injunction orders the Centurion Project to immediately remove the database from public access and to provide Elections Alberta with the full list of every individual who registered to view it. The Republican Party has also been prohibited from sharing any voter list with unauthorised users. Elections Alberta has notified the province’s Information and Privacy Commissioner and confirmed it is working with other agencies as part of the ongoing investigation.

This incident does not exist in isolation. It arrives as Alberta’s separatist movement prepares for a potential independence referendum this fall, and as a separate report from the Canadian Digital Media Research Network has identified a network of 20 inauthentic YouTube channels that have accumulated nearly 40 million views pushing Alberta separatism and United States annexation narratives, a network researchers have flagged as a potential covert influence operation. Parker responded to the injunction on social media by posting a photograph of a phone book, a posture that does not reflect the seriousness of what a court has now formally ordered him to address.

The personal information of nearly three million Albertans was made publicly searchable by a group whose stated goal is to recruit supporters for Alberta independence ahead of a constitutional referendum. Elections Alberta moved to shut it down. The investigation into how it got there is ongoing.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The following screenshot is shared with permission from Chris Thompson