As happens6:02The mayor of the city of Alberta says that there is nothing that can do about ‘let’s join the United States!’ billboard
The first time Robb Stuart heard about the advertising fence in his city that requested Alberta to join the United States was when he received an angry email about it last week.
“He simply said they were disgusted, who thought they would never have to send an email to anyone to have a sign that promotes to join the United States,” said Stuart, mayor of Bowden, Alta. As happens Host Kӧksal.
“And some other probabilities and ends there. Most is not for public audience.”
A second email continued 20 minutes later, he says, and they have not stopped coming since then.
But while Stuart is presenting calls and messages from the annoying residents of the sign, he says that Bowden’s city did not approve it and does not have the authority to eliminate it.
“The billboard has absolutely anything to do with the city of Bowden. We weren’t even aware of it until after the fact,” said Stuart. “Bowden’s city does not deserve the negative comments to which we have been subject to.”
Spot ADS, the company that has the poster space overlooking the road that connects Edmonton and Calgary, says the announcement does not violate its standards.
The company behind the announcement, a Western Canadian separatist organization called America Fund, says it plans to execute more advertising fences throughout the province in the coming weeks.
Ties with Wexit, requesting donations
The billboard in the center of Firestorma presents an image of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith posing With the president of the United States, Donald Trump, along with the words: “Tell Danielle! Let’s join the United States!”
He directs a website for America, which requests donations and is invoiced as “Canadians for a state 51”.
Trump has repeatedly said that he wants Canada to become state 51 and has threatened to use the “economic force” to achieve his vision. 25 percent tariffs are expected to promulgate In most Canadian imports next week, Canada has promised countermeasures.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, commissioned his economy team on Thursday by designing a plan to impose reciprocal tariffs on all countries that raised tariffs for US imports. In addition, without being asked, Trump repeated the call to make Canada a “state 51” and said that Canada is the taxpayer “almost lower” to NATO.
America Fund is administered, in part, by Paul McGregor of the Alberta 51 project, which promotes Alberta becoming an American state; and Peter Downing, founder of Wexit, a political party that advocated that west Canada separated from the rest of the country. Wexit has been renamed since then as the Maverick party.
“We are based in Alberta and we agree to assume this project as a direct policy countermeasted to Ottawa’s threats to impose tariffs/embargoes/oil export and gas export embarns in the sale of our natural resources to the United States of America,” Lincoln Burrows Burrows Burrows Burrows Burrows Burrows. He told CBC in an email.
Burrows included images generated by AI in its email response to CBC questions, including one of an American flag that agitates Toronto.
The advertising campaign, he says, is directed by Pathfinder Consulting Group LTD, a “guerrilla marketing company based in the west of Canada”, and financed by donations of supporters.
CBC could not find contact information for Pathfinder, which Burrows says that “it is not on the public list.”
Another of Downing organizations, Alberta Lucha, has used similar tactics in the past. In 2019, he bought Advertising turns that ask Alberta to “Ditch Canada”. In 2020, he bought advertising fences with the face of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the words “Shut up!”
The objective of this campaign, says Burrows, is to find out if Prime Minister Smith supports Alberta becoming a state 51, or “if his loyalties are of a federal nature.”
The group received its response on Monday when Smith was asked about the billboard During a press conference.
“I don’t think there is much enthusiasm for what the advertising fence says or what the president has been talking,” he said. “That is why I say that we are still the best commercial partner of the United States, and we are still a sovereign nation.”
Bowden residents are not happy
Meanwhile, Spot ads says that it is “aware of the sensitivity of messages”, but that, ultimately, the billboard does not violate its policy against “hate speech, promotion of violence or obscenities.”
“Spot Ads believes in defending the fundamental rights of Canadians guaranteed by the Charter of Canadian rights and freedoms and, in particular, freedom of expression,” a spokesman told CBC in a statement sent by email.
Airlines and travel companies are receiving a blow as more Canadians cancel the travel plans of the United States and even sell US properties, about the repeated threats of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, against Canada.
Canadians and Bowden residents in particular are not taking kindly in the advertising fence.
A publication with an image of the billboard on the Reddit R/Alberta page He is full of comments from people who call him “betrayal”, “a shame” and a “misfortune.”
Burrows described the Reddit “Vile” reaction and said that America Fund has sent comments to the Police and the FBI that “threatened personal violence and property damage against our staff, our advertising partner and third -party owners.”
But criticism is not intended for Reddit. A resident of Bowden, Cam Morrison, Said Global News That people in Bowden find the “completely scandalous” billboard.
Another resident, Shirley Schultz, He told CTV News: “Alberta is not going to separate, or Canada, so they can forget about it.”
The vast majority of Canadians reject the idea of joining the United States, According to recent Abacus Data and Angus Reid Institute surveys.
Mayor Stuart says that most people in Bowden are also against the idea, although he says he has heard of some who feel otherwise.
“Everyone has the right to their opinion. I will not judge anyone,” he said, before adding: “If you want to join the United States, nothing prevents them from moving.”
