Far-left Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney expressed fears the United States is trying to break Canada so it can “own us” and thereby gain control of the resource-rich country, urging voters in Alberta on Thursday to reject the path toward devolution in the upcoming referendum.
\n\nAP reports the ballot is not a direct referendum on independence. Alberta, which has the world’s fourth-largest proven oil reserves, will decide whether to remain a province or instruct the government to begin the legal process toward a future referendum on separation.
\n\n“This referendum comes at the worst possible time,” Carney told a large pro-Canada rally in Calgary, per the AP report. “The world has become more dangerous and divided. Some outside our borders are working to break us so they can own us.”
\n\nThe career banker and bureaucrat did not directly mention the U.S. or its President Donald Trump in that passage, but has done so in similar past speeches and the inference was clear.
\n\nAP further notes Carney’s warning came as Trump wages a trade war with Canada and after his repeated threats to make it the 51st U.S. state, stating Canada is one of the worst nations in the world to deal…
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