Thread by @NikaDragomira

So, are Albertans helping the Russians, or are the Russians helping Albertans in talks of secession if they do not get their preferred candidate? There have been alerts these past few weeks that Canada is being targeted for election interference, and...

https://twitter.com/DianeMariePosts/status/1148089701753995265

...it was determined that part of Russia's book of election interference tricks, is to promote threats of secession. They did it in the US, & it is well documented. Curious that it is all the rage again, in Canada this time, right before the election.

bbc.com/news/blogs-tre…

What is also curious is that CPC candidates are using near identical talking points as a lot of these 'Rugby Dad from Alberta' twitter users. Don't take my word for it, though. Just go look on CPC candidates', pundits, and some CPC senators' twitter feeds.

If people think this can't happen here, they are fooling themselves.

washingtonpost.com/news/democracy…

thinkprogress.org/russia-texas-c…

Here is a most recent example of the CPC making threatening talking points about Alberta secession if people don't vote for a CPC government. One has to wonder who is feeding her these talking points.

Here's the live tweet from Senator Frum. I always take a screen shot of the tweet these days, in case the live tweet gets deleted.

https://twitter.com/LindaFrum/status/1148212531695169536

"In 2016, a Calexit leader told KQED that he worked with that Russian agency to “raise awareness” of Calexit goals."

kqed.org/news/11650681/…