Heiltsuk Marilyn Slett won’t relent on the tanker ban. Which leaves Mark Carney only a problematic southern route.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has probably never heard her name, but K̓áwáziɫ Marilyn Slett, chief councillor of the Heiltsuk Tribal Council on B.C.’s Central Coast, has emerged as one of the strongest voices opposing any change to Canada’s North Coast tanker ban.
If there’s one immovable obstacle to Smith’s dream of a new northern oil pipeline and terminal, it’s Slett.
A referendum on an official referendum scheduled for the night of October 19, 2026, could set Alberta on an official legal process of leaving Canada.
Earlier this month, a judge of the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta ruled against an official, non-binding referendum going forward this fall, citing a lack of consultation with the province’s Indigenous people and the Crown.
Can Danielle Smith continue using Alberta separatism as a tool of political management without eventually losing control of the forces she helped unleash? This past week suggests she can’t. Political movements built on grievance rarely remain controllable for long. Since becoming premier in 2022, she has systematically normalized the politics of betrayal, victimhood, and existential crisis. Now she is trying to surf a political tsunami wave of her own making.
The leader of the BC Prosperity Project says Curtis Stone’s views don’t reflect those of the wider group.
One of the moderators of a popular Facebook page that promotes B.C. separating from Canada has been open about his white nationalist and antisemitic beliefs, and his interest in Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders.
In February 2025, Curtis Stone appeared in a Rumble video called “Uncle Ted’s Disciples w/Curtis Stone,” which features Stone talking with Derek Harrison, a member of the extreme-right Canadian group Diagolon.
The premier’s referendum plan is destructive, divisive and ultimately evil.
In a televised address Thursday night Alberta Premier Danielle Smith launched a xenophobic assault on immigration and proposed a set of referendum questions for this fall advocating a constitutional agenda that would reduce Canada to a rump of pathetic, disaggregated fiefdoms.
