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Canada separatists accused of ‘treason’ after secret talks with US state department

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David Eby at a Council of the Federation meeting in Ottawa on 28 January. Photograph: Canadian Press/Shutterstock

Covert meetings between separatist activists in the Canadian province of Alberta and members of Donald Trump’s administration amount to “treason”, the premier of British Columbia said on Thursday.

“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,” David Eby told reporters.

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