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The Centurion Project is the data and ground-game layer of a decentralized alliance of far-right Alberta organizations whose legal separation from one another is an intentional deniability strategy. The Centurion Project was publicly unveiled in Edmonton on April 29, 2026, by David Parker of Take Back Alberta. The alliance's documented components include Take Back Alberta, the Republican Party of Alberta, the Alberta Prosperity Project and Stay Free Alberta, each sharing personnel with the others while remaining legally distinct.

What permits the alliance to operate is its embedding within the governing party. Take Back Alberta swept all nine open seats representing half of the UCP's eighteen-seat governing board at the November 2022 annual general meeting, and at the November 2023 AGM completed the conquest, installing Rob Smith of Olds-Didsbury as party president. Parker takes public credit for ousting Jason Kenney as premier and installing Danielle Smith as his successor; and Smith attended Parker's wedding in the Rockies in March 2023.

As of February 2026, the Republican Party of Alberta's MLA Independence Scorecard listed eighteen sitting UCP MLAs as separation supporters, including eight cabinet ministers, the chief government whip, the Speaker of the legislature, and a parliamentary secretary. Three have publicly denied the characterization. The remainder have not. Among them is Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen, who travelled to the United States to campaign for Trump in 2016 and attended his second inauguration as a private citizen in January 2025. The UCP caucus communications director answered for all eighteen with a single statement, framing the referendum petition as a private matter beyond elected officials' comment and reasserting caucus support for "a strong and sovereign Alberta within a united Canada." The UCP is not a member of the alliance in a formal sense but its senior leaders and MLAs are. The deniability that arrangement preserves on both sides is more useful than formal membership would be.

The Centurion Project's core strategy is an app. Volunteers sign up, "claim" individual Alberta electors from a database illegally obtained via the Republican Party from Elections Alberta, send those electors a survey gauging support for provincial independence, and accept responsibility for turning out the people they have claimed if and when a referendum reaches the ballot. Parker calls the recruitment model the "10x strategy": every supporter recruits ten more, who recruit ten more, scaling outward through existing social ties.

The harm through this database’s transmission to far right organizations is severe. Names, addresses, phone numbers, and identification numbers of Albertans are now in the wild. Albertans who oppose the alliance have their home addresses in its hands. So do members of the judicial system, judges and prosecutors whose safety depends on their addresses staying private. So do domestic abuse survivors who have moved to escape the people they fled.

The Centurion Project's design borrows features from the John Birch Society in the United States: networking outside conventional party politics, dossier-keeping on members and adversaries, recruitment through personal relationships, apocalyptic framing of mainstream institutions, and a core figure whose pronouncements set the line. The 10x recruitment model is similar to the New Apostolic Reformation's cell-multiplication frameworks. The documented technical lineage runs through American right-wing political-tech vendors, one of whom Parker says he encountered while on tour with Tucker Carlson in Grand Rapids in September 2024, and credits with helping Trump win Michigan two months later. Parker's launch-night comparison of Alberta's place in Confederation to slavery in Exodus prompted a sympathetic audience member to shout for him to drop the religious material.

The alliance's relationship with the United States is well-documented. The Alberta Prosperity Project has met with State Department officials at least three times since April 2025 and is seeking a $500 billion US credit facility from State and Treasury to bankroll the province in the event of secession. Separatist leaders have also discussed switching to US currency and creating a new Alberta military. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has publicly described Alberta as a natural partner. Trump's 2025 National Security Strategy commits the administration to rewarding hemispheric movements broadly aligned with its principles. The official US line is that no commitments have been conveyed; the public encouragement and the formal denials are doing different jobs.

What the Centurion Project completes is the espionage prong of a fifth column operation. During the Second World War, the Madrid fifth column kept lists of Republican sympathizers for fascist forces to act on once the city fell. The Centurion Project keeps lists of Albertans, organized by riding and polling subdivision, queryable by name and address, for the alliance to act on if and when a referendum is forced. The Washington outreach is the foreign-coordination prong. The social-pressure recruitment design is the morale-undermining prong. The parallels are striking.

Citations and Further Reading

On the launch and the database

CBC News, "Elections Alberta granted injunction to pull down electoral list posted publicly by separatist group," Wallis Snowdon, April 30, 2026. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/elections-alberta-electors-database-9.7182667 (Covers the injunction, salted-name forensics, RPA as source, alliance composition.)

The Orchard, "SCOOP: Elections Alberta investigating separatists for accessing electors list," Jeremy Appel, April 30, 2026. https://www.readtheorchard.org/p/scoop-elections-alberta-investigating (Eyewitness account of the Edmonton launch, the 10x strategy, Tucker Carlson origin, the Exodus comparison and audience response.)

The Globe and Mail, "Alberta separatist group ordered to pull down list of voters following court injunction," April 30, 2026. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-elections-alberta-confirms-potential-data-breach/ (Globe's own analysis of the root database, including the Notley search demonstration. Behind a paywall.)

Elections Alberta, "Alleged Inappropriate Distribution of List of Electors," April 30, 2026. https://www.elections.ab.ca/resources/media/news-releases/alleged-inappropriate-distribution-of-list-of-electors/ (Primary source)

On the UCP board capture

CBC News, "'We need to control the party': a look inside Take Back Alberta's UCP insurgency," Jason Markusoff, May 9, 2023. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/take-back-alberta-david-parker-control-party-board-ucp-1.6834387 (Parker's biography, the Smith wedding, the half-board capture.) The Tyee, "Take Back Alberta Embraces Increasing Extremism," David Climenhaga, October 16, 2023. https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/10/16/Take-Back-Alberta-Increasing-Extremism/ (The takeover in progress, Parker's record of public statements.)

Rabble.ca, "Take Back Alberta completes take over of UCP board," David Climenhaga, November 6, 2023. https://rabble.ca/politics/canadian-politics/take-back-alberta-completes-take-over-of-ucp-board/ (The completed conquest, Rob Smith installation over Orman, Parker's "veni, vidi, vici" post.)

On the MLA scorecard

The Orchard, "Separatist party claims 11 UCP MLAs support a binding independence referendum," Jeremy Appel, April 2025. https://www.readtheorchard.org/p/separatist-party-claims-11-ucp-mlas (The original RPA scorecard story, Marsh's methodology, Dreeshen's Trump-campaign and inauguration history.)

The Tyee, "When Will the UCP Come Clean on Separatist Goals?" David Climenhaga, February 10, 2026. https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/02/10/When-Will-UCP-Come-Clean-Separatist-Goals/ (The expanded list to nineteen, the cabinet count, the comms director response.)

Alberta Politics, "Ric McIver states unequivocally he is not a supporter of Alberta separatism," David Climenhaga, February 18, 2026. https://albertapolitics.substack.com/p/ric-mciver-states-unequivocally-he (The three denials, including Schow's qualified denial, McIver's unequivocal one, and Sigurdson's.)

On the United States relationship

CBC News, "B.C. premier says Alberta separatists seeking assistance from U.S. is 'treason'," January 30, 2026. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/eby-alberta-separatism-9.7066320 (Eby's treason characterization, the APP Washington meetings, Bessent's "natural partner" comments, the $500 billion credit facility.)

NBC News, "Canadian separatists optimistic after meetings with Trump officials," February 12, 2026. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/canadian-separatists-alberta-meetings-trump-officials-rcna258230 (Currency switch and military formation discussions, the National Security Strategy "reward and encourage" language, the Eby quote in fuller form.)