In-person Arts & Culture

On Treason

Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026
5:00pm to 6:30pm

Part of: LitFest

Citadel Theatre
Selected as a Taproot pick
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Patrick Lennox will speak to Taproot's Karen Unland about On Treason, the extraordinary tale of how Alberta has come to have a referendum vote on the province's future within Canada.

The stakes could not be higher. The Alberta Separatists claim to have collected enough signatures on their petition to force a referendum this fall on whether the province should cease to remain part of Canada. But this isn't an organic political movement founded in genuine grievance. This is a plot to end Canada by a nefarious group of individuals tied to the global far right.

Framed as an investigation into the treasonous nature of this separatist movement, On Treason explains how the movement has been aided and abetted by foreign actors and disinformation in an attempt to fracture the remaining liberal democracy in North America. This treasonous course has not only been marked and furthered by foreign interference, it has been spurred on and enabled by a Provincial Government more aligned with the Trump Administration than with its own Federal counterparts.

By situating the story in the revolutionary geopolitical context of a collapsing rules-based international order, and the US's quest for hemispheric domination as articulated in its National Security Strategy, On Treason is about a referendum as much as it is about Canada's survival.


Citadel Theatre

9828 101A Avenue NW
Edmonton, AB, T5J 3C6


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