Expert says it wouldn’t surprise him if the Trump administration and U.S. government agencies were to boost and support Alberta’s separatists, given the access they have already had

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Steve Bannon is in the ratings business these days, so he can say outrageous things with impunity.

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On his influential War Room podcast last week, he talked about Prime Minister Mark Carney’s “kowtowing” visit to China and said: “Let me be blunt, you are playing with fire. You will rue the day you did that. President (Donald) Trump is not just going to let the Chinese Communist Party become an active strategic partner up there. It’s not going to happen.”

The problem for Canada is that there is a direct conduit from the lips of Donald Trump’s former chief strategist to the president’s ears.

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Bannon hypothesized about the prospect of Canada granting China basing rights or taking part in joint military exercises in the Arctic, before turning to what he called a “shift” in Canada caused by immigration. “These people are hostile to the United States,” he said.

Bannon babbled like an accident victim about Americans invading Canada in 1812 and the potential opportunity for the United States of Alberta secession. (In an episode last November, guest Brandon Weichert talked........

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