Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada’s expectations that foreign governments, including the United States, will stay out of Alberta’s referendum are “absolutely clear.”
Speaking to Global News in Calgary Thursday morning, Carney said that it’s “fundamental” for Canada to ensure the integrity of elections at all levels of government — including the Oct. 19 referendum that will decide if Alberta will hold a vote on separating.
“Our expectation is, to be absolutely clear, on foreign governments, United States included, is we don’t get ourselves involved in their elections, they don’t get themselves in our elections,” Carney said.
“Fundamental point: the way to ensure there’s no foreign interference in an election is to get out and vote in the election, and let’s have the voices of Albertans heard.”
The prime minister was in Alberta ahead of the Oct. 19 vote, which includes a question on whether Albertans want to begin the legal process to hold a binding referendum on separation from Canada.
The issue has dominated Albertan politics for more than a year, and been tinged with concerns about foreign actors supporting the separatist cause.
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Leading figures in the separatist movement have claimed to have traveled to the U.S. to appeal for assistance from the State Department.
Trump’s treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, has openly mused about Alberta being a “natural partner” for the U.S. and Howard Lutnik, Trump’s commerce secretary, has accused Carney of collapsing trade talks to somehow gain “leverage” over the separatist movement.
Carney told Global News that Canada’s national security agencies are actively watching for covert foreign interference in the referendum, but said he could not speak to specifics.
“It’s fundamental to ensure the integrity of all our elections, whether it’s municipal, this referendum, national, provincial elections … Our national security agencies are very active in monitoring potential foreign interference,” Carney said.
“Ultimately … there’s a limit to what I can say, given the codes, but there’s active involvement in that.”
Carney appealed directly to Albertans to vote against a formal separation referendum, talking up his government’s recent announcements of federal projects — including a new pipeline, the Pacific Link, to the B.C. coast — in the province.
Carney also pointed to the aftermath of the Brexit referendum — which took place while he was governor of the Bank of England — as something Alberta should want to avoid.
“It wasn’t clear what Brexit meant at the time people made that vote. And for the next few years, while that was being determined, there was huge uncertainty, investments stopped, the economy started to underperform,” Carney said.
“Now the economy is at least 10 per cent lower than it would otherwise be. We’re taking thousands and thousands of dollars of earnings that people are giving up, higher taxes, higher debt on the government.”
Instead, Carney said Alberta has an opportunity to “boldly move forward” as a province within Canada.
“The world’s opening up to Canada. Let’s take advantage of it. Or take another path, which is not the one I recommend, which is (to) subject ourselves to uncertainty, slower economy, higher debt, higher taxes, and missed opportunity,” Carney said.
I hate Carney, but everyone saying he can’t “interfere” with the election is wrong! He actually can legally do everything hes currently doing. He could literally campaign for a certain candidate if he wanted to.
What ever happened to “Freedom of Speech” as it states in the “Charter of rights”
Why is he here to try to pursude people to vote to stay? Unless he is Voting himself, he should not be at any rallys around a polling station. It’s the law!!
Should include Doug Ford who ran a partisan commercial during the 2025 World Series.
That should include the US Ambassador to Canada. That Trump flunky should be sent home.
The only interference I’ve seen is from the far-left and our tax dollar funder media.
NL has more reason to separate from Canada than Alberta or Quebec…
Maybe he should take his own advise and stop campaigning in alberta .he is interfering with the election
Carneys promises are worth nothing. He made many promises during the 2025 election that he didn’t deliver on. Albertans want to see a new pipeline built, not the promises of one maybe at some time to be determined. Talk is cheap.
Carney should stay out if Alberta’s election. He has nothing of value to say to Alberta.
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Mark Carney is for Unity for him self and his corrupt ! he is for washing billions of Canadian tax dollars by fake donations .and have conflict of interest with Brookfield investments .he has flooded Canada with millions of immigrants causing high inflation and no jobs for Canadians time for Alberta to take a stand and vote for independence
Carney is becoming the supreme brown noser, he has his nose in everything, dark brown now.
Wait, why is carney interfering in this election. Double talk ya??
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Mark Carney is for Unity!
@Smith 100pm. Respectfully, I appreciate your well written comment. As someone who is left of centre, my wife and I believe it’s our collective obligation to help those down on their luck. What is the difference between me and someone who sweeps the street? They didn’t have the benefit of being born into a fairly well off family, so weren’t able to pursue their education. They don’t have the privilege of having connections because of family. I view the street sweeper as a person who lacked opportunity through no fault of their own. Or maybe they have a disability? Shouldn’t we help people, who despite their best efforts, are poor? I could be that sweep sweeper if it were not for my incredible privilege.
there are no canadina left.. all immigrants. they will vote agan t canadian… happy hybrid canadians
What about the compromised MP’s in our government? Carney knows, Singh knows, Freeland knows but the people don’t know.
But it was ok for Ford to meddle with USA politics?
Like Global says, voting option 2 on question 10 does NOT mean ‘separation’. It means we get to vote in the future to separate. So I’m voting option 2. In a future vote, I’ll vote to stay.
@ Bruna is 100% right the Canadians have been interfering in the American elections running ads trying to get the Democrats elected Carney doesn’t want to go back to the negotiating table until after the midterm elections hoping the Democrats we’ll take the house and we’ll get more favorable outcome in the negotiations with the Trump Administration hypocrisy of its greatest
maybe that dishonest person ought to stay out of this Alberta decision also….
your pipeline announcements were induced by the threat of separation? That’s what I read from your comments. We’ll have another vote soon, to make sure you actually get shovels in the ground. Cause, frankly, you make a lot of announcements and Canadians see very little progress. A lot of impairment to development though, and you seemingly have no desire to clean up regulation bureaucracy
So then why did Lard Ford run a partisan commercial in the USA last year and Ford telling Americans to vote for the Democrats. Canadian hypocrisy at its finest.
Carney has no compelling argument on why Alberta is better off staying in Canada. His rhetoric doesn’t impress me.
Its onteresting how the bought$$$ Liberal press in Canada,always has articles on foriegn influence in Alberta and dont say a word about Chinese influence in the Federal Liberal Party.At least a half dozen Liberal MPs have ties to communist China(Foriegn interferance).The Trudeau gov,allowed Chinese troops to do winter training at Petawawa(Foriegn intereferance). The Liberals during the pandemic bought a useless Chinese vaccine before buying them from USA or E.U companies, leaving us short.The Liberals sent tons of PPE to China leaving us short.The Liberals refused to stop Chinese flights at the beginning of the pandemic.They kept Teresa Tam as medical officer even when she made mistake after mistake.
Obama endorsed Justin a week before a Canadian election(foriegn interferance).Why are none of these things brought up in the press????????This country is a joke.
@ Rodney Dangerfield – Posting disinformation like illegal immigrants voting in the comment section of news stories is one way.
Illegal immigrants do not vote. It’s a false narrative (alternative facts!) from the right. Only gullible racists believe it because it confirms their prior beliefs.
The carny should be more worried about Chinese interference then U.S. interference.
He’s using AI
Ben, you must really love those Liberal-coloured glasses. That’s your right, as a self proclaimed gen-Z.
I’m what they call a Boomer, and lived in Alberta for the past 42 years. I’ve seen a lot over those years, regime changes that were beneficial as well as those that were destructive.
Anything to the left of center, or far left, never seemed to be reality based. More of the dreamland, lofty goals and just wealth redistribution. And promising piles of money the government never had to begin with.
No government was perfect but, from a personal observation and that of my shrinking bank account balance, I can tell you the left leaning socialists were never of benefit to Alberta, nor Canada for that matter.
I do like your writing style; it shows someone with considerable education, above average IQ, or both.
Your optimism is admirable. Sadly, and I truly mean it, I believe, it’s misguided.
I hope you never have to experience an actual economic depression as I have but, the way our federal government is mishandling things, that’s were our country is heading.
Before getting into an “associate membership “ with the EU we need to know exactly what it entails
Otherwise this is just another worthless MOU and drama for the cameras
Foreign interference is okay when my side does it and bad when the other side does it. We need foreign interference or we’d never win anything cuz nobody actually likes us.
Carney
Still electioneering against Trump instead of doing his job
Just like Trudeau
Where are the results????
One year lots of travel and photo ops nothing concrete happening
All talk no action
In a Parliamentary democracy, the government is free to pursue an associate membership with the EU. They don’t need to consult Canadians. That being said, there is overwhelming support, according to polls, for associate membership. So the government does have public support for this. I think some people need more education on our system as there are a lot of misconceptions about it.
Phony media narratives – how is the US going to interfere exactly? Send a bunch of their illegal immigrants to vote here too?
@Ben. Get your nose out of Carney’s bunghole
Funny that Carney has described the Brexit “aftermath” to a tee exactly what’s happening in Canada right now – “investment stopped, economy started to underperform”.
He’s singlehandedly collapsed the trade talks with the US. We still don’t have all the details as to why.
He’s signed Canada up for a quasi membership with EU, without ever consulting Canadians.
EU is salivating about what they can get from us while there’s really nothing they can offer in return.
See it yet? The common denominator to all this is Carney.
Canada is being dismantled right before our eyes; it’s been referred to as “controlled demolition”.
The Liberal politics continue to drive investment out of Canada. Without investment there’s very little chance of the economy improving. It started with carbon tax, and built up from there.
Carney’s plea to Alberta to stay in Canada is not to show he actually cares about Alberta. It’s desperation. His quick turn around about the pipeline is for show. The FNs can drag this out in courts for years, unless we cut off the gravy train and start the construction. But it needs to happen now, not on a year(s) of legal wrangling. Right now. Otherwise might just post the sign “Canada for Sale. All offers considered”.
They’re already “meddling” …
They need to be told to STOP!
Libs didn’t mind when Obama “endorsed” Trudeau in 2019 and 2021. If it benefits the Libs, they are good with it.
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If Carney wants others to stay out of Alberta vote then Canada needs to stay out of the USA mid terms and Canadians need to keep their opinions to themselves.
The US is not our enemy. Our real enemies are the politicians who mislead people with false information and make promises they cannot keep. That’s why I believe a strong federal government should hold these politicians accountable for their actions if they deliberately mislead the public or betray the country. in some countries they go to prison.
Does Ben work for Carny or Global… Can someone actually be that daft??
I’m proud that Carney and Canada are standing up to the Trump administration and the USA. This is the job of a PM and reasonable, patriotic Canadians will thank him for doing it as it takes courage.