Elephant in the Room- Alberta Separatists in DC

Not sure how many of your got to read the Globe and Mail Investigation- Here’s the whole thing via Archive.ph

I will include some highlights from the piece directly below MY relinked post on this subject

The US is targeting Canada with their classic destabiliztion methods

Foreign interference has already been acknowledged- Dutch you tube video creators promoting separation. Lots of disinfo accounts on social media. Endless demonization.

Trump being one of the worse promoters of all sorts of disinfo- which you would have seen and heard many, many times over many destabilization actions. Targeting any number of nations.

Globe and Mail

Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province. Behind the cross-border effort to sway Alberta’s secession vote

The Alberta Prosperity Project chose the location to accommodate its guests, Republican political strategists from Michigan who helped Donald Trump win the state in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

The American delegation travelled to Calgary to sell them on software developed for Republicans to get out the vote – and how it could be used to wrench Alberta from Confederation.

“They were young Christians. Capable, intelligent people,” Mr. Sylvestre said. “We prayed before we started the meeting.”

David Parker, an organizer for Alberta separation, brokered the meeting and championed the software. Known as 10X Votes, it mines voter lists to identify communities of like-minded people that could be mobilized to potentially swing elections.

“I was blown away by what this can do,” Mr. Parker told a separatist meeting in Edmonton in April, according to video footage of the presentation, where he demonstrated a version adapted for use in Alberta.

He called it “the most effective way I have ever come across to win a campaign.”

The Christian angle is disturbing to me- these are mostly the zealous Christian zionist types–I’m not big on theocracy– Oddly I find the US and Israel to be theocracies masquerading as democracies.

Doug Wilson, an influential Christian nationalist pastor who has been invited to the Pentagon by Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, said earlier this year that Alberta independence would be “wonderful.” Mr. Wilson leads a conservative Reformed Christian denomination that has several churches in Alberta – in Coaldale, Cochrane and Grande Prairie – some of them led by pastors who have expressed support for secession.

The software in question?

The Centurion controversy

A few weeks after the meeting with the Americans, Mr. Parker launched the Centurion Project, a new political organization that used the 10X Votes technology, adjusted for Alberta.

“The Centurion Project is going to be a force to be reckoned with in the coming months. We have the backing, we have the momentum, and now we have the tool,” he wrote on social media in April.

“Using this tool is going to transform how politics is done, I think, in the Western world,” he said in a podcast.

“But for now, Alberta.”

The tool was a scaled-down version of what 10X created in Michigan. It was intuitive, and once approved, users could search for Albertans using partial names or fragments of addresses. Queries that did not yield precise matches would instead show the first 50 possible results. Included were legal first and last names, addresses, electoral divisions and polling subdivisions. A search of a partial address would reveal the names of all eligible voters living at that residence.

During online demonstrations of the new Alberta tool, the Centurion Project representatives claimed the data was publicly available, no different than information contained in the phone book. They also insisted the data was secure.

It was not.

The Globe and Mail, which registered for the Centurion Project using a company e-mail address, discovered a security vulnerability that gave users access to the main directory that the whole system was based on.

It was, according to The Globe’s analysis, the master list of eligible voters for the province – or very close to one.

As The Globe first reported in April, the Centurion Project’s database contained names and addresses for 2,957,857 Albertans, once apparent duplicate entries were removed.

By way of comparison, Elections Alberta’s list of electors tallied 2,966,192 eligible voters across the province in May, 2025, when the head count was last updated.

Further, The Globe found the Centurion Project’s underlying database contained a trove of highly sensitive personal information beyond what casual users could easily access, including middle names, unique electoral identification numbers and 2,083,175 phone numbers.

It was a massive privacy breach – one of the largest that the province had ever seen.

Malicious actors could use the tool, and the data contained in it, to find sensitive personal details for private citizens, police officers, judges, politicians and public figures.

The data breach had real-world consequences. Edmonton city councillor Aaron Paquette said his phone rang with calls from constituents scared for their safety, including a woman who feared her violent ex would learn where she was now living.

Canada’s security agencies were also concerned, according to an intelligence brief on May 21 from the federal Integrated Threat Assessment Centre, a specialized unit that works with CSIS to assess national security threats.

The document, obtained by The Globe through access to information and marked “Secret / Canadian Eyes Only,” is heavily redacted but indicates alarm at the situation.

“There remains a period of heightened sensitivity and awareness as public officials, law enforcement and other stakeholders work to understand the full extent of the incident and its potential consequences,” the brief said.

You get the idea? Read the rest at the link provided.