On Treason: Alberta Separatism, Foreign Interference, and Canada's Survival in a Revolutionary Age (Field Notes, 12)

“What is happening here in Alberta is an aberration. It does not resemble, in any fashion, democratic politics as normal in Canada. For the last ten years Canadians have watched these forces play out in the United States. But now these same forces have arrived here, within our own country. They are threatening to tear us asunder at the precise moment when we are most vulnerable, at the precise moment when our national unity is most paramount. This is not a coincidence.”—from On Treason

Born of fraud and the COVID-19 pandemic, the Alberta separatist movement and its enablers in the quasi-separatist United Conservative Party are engaged in treason against the Canadian people. They wear the obscuring masks of grievance, but behind those masks are the faces of traitors. On Treason reveals those faces to be a gaggle of hucksters, conmen, and megalomaniacal politicians who are enabling our enemies to loosen through disinformation, covert and overt interference (and possibly worse) our will to self-determination as a nation.

Patrick Lennox is a Canadian writer based in Edmonton, Alberta. He worked to counter foreign interference for over a decade in both Ottawa and in Edmonton with Canada’s security and intelligence community. He first started writing about Canada-US relations twenty years ago, and has a PhD in political science from the University of Toronto. He’s a frequent contributor to The Walrus.