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.
