Officials at the State Department met three times during 2025 with the Alberta Prosperity Project, a group campaigning for Alberta's independence from Canada. The meetings took place on April 22, September 29 and December 16, according to APP co-founder Dennis Modry, who said he attended all three. Attorney Jeffrey Rath said they were held at State Department headquarters in Washington.
The Financial Times broke the story in late January 2026, and other outlets followed. The meetings had gone unreported for as long as nine months.
The group was pressing for a fourth meeting in February 2026, with State and Treasury officials, at which it intended to ask the Treasury for a possible $500 billion line of credit. That request was never made, and no credit line was offered or extended.
The reaction in Canada was immediate. On January 29, 2026, before a closed-door meeting of premiers with Prime Minister Carney in Ottawa, B.C. Premier David Eby said: “To go to a foreign country and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there's an old-fashioned word for that, and that word is treason.”
A senior State Department official said no further meeting would take place. The White House said senior officials were not present at the meetings and that no commitments were made.