Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Canada’s premiers today in Ottawa with a focus to “come together and build.”
After the U.S. State Department confirmed that Alberta separatists met with the Trump administration, Carney said he expected the United States to always “respect Canadian sovereignty.”
The first ministers’ meeting comes as potential independence referendums in both Quebec and Alberta are being discussed in those provinces.
Quebec’s outgoing premier says most Quebecers don’t want to separate, but it’s up to them to decide.
I think he probably believes this too, but even if he didn’t, he wouldn’t say otherwise as that would cause a huge panic.
A headline that reads to the effect of “Mark Carney believes that Canadian sovereignty is at risk from the US” would cause nothing but problems for us.
The fact that he is saying this means that he already believes that. There’d be no need to say it otherwise. He’s just being a proper diplomat by saying it diplomatically.