When Foreign Interference Comes From the South: The Alberta Prosperity Project, the White House and the Threat to Canadian Sovereignty
The story Charlie Angus is asking Canadians to pay attention to did not begin with a phone call or a press conference. It began with three secret meetings in Washington between members of the Alberta Prosperity Project, a far-right separatist group, and officials from the United States State Department and Treasury Department. Those meetings were held between last April and January 2026. A fourth meeting was being planned. The entire U.S. administration is supportive of Alberta becoming a sovereign country, Alberta Prosperity Project co-founder Dennis Modry told NBC News following those meetings. That is not a social media post. That is a named founder of a Canadian separatist organisation quoting American government officials on their support for breaking up Canada.
NDP MP Charlie Angus, one of the most tenacious parliamentary accountability voices in the House of Commons, has called for a formal investigation into these meetings and has stated plainly that the White House poses the greatest threat to Canadian unity. That framing is not hyperbole. It is a direct and documented conclusion from the available evidence.
The Alberta Prosperity Project is not a fringe group operating in isolation. It was collecting signatures toward the approximately 178,000 needed to trigger a citizen-initiated referendum under Alberta’s Citizen Initiative Act, a piece of legislation amended by Premier Danielle Smith’s government in December 2025 specifically to lower the barriers to a referendum process that an Alberta court had previously ruled unconstitutional. The meetings with American officials discussed the mechanics of Alberta breaking with Canada, including plans to switch to the US dollar, establish a new military force and create a new border regime. They sought $500 billion in US Treasury funds to backstop the new country should the referendum succeed.
The White House characterised the meetings as routine contacts with civil-society groups involving no promises. A State Department spokesperson said only staff-level meetings were held and no further talks were planned. Dennis Modry’s account of those meetings, in which he described active American support for Alberta sovereignty, directly contradicts both characterisations.
What follows is available to paid subscribers. The full analysis connects the State Department meetings to the broader documented network of foreign interference targeting Alberta’s separatist movement, examines what CSIS has confirmed about referendum vulnerability, documents the Russian and American political operatives identified by The Walrus as actively targeting Alberta’s information environment, and answers the question Charlie Angus is asking about who is actually threatening Canadian unity and why the answer matters for every Canadian regardless of where they live.
