Senior U.S. government officials secretly meet with far-right groups attempting to divide Canada, State Department responds

According to reports from the Financial Times of the UK and the Daily Beast of the US, against the backdrop of increasingly deepening divisions between the US and Canada, a "very, very high-level" US government official secretly met with an extreme right-wing separatist group attempting to undermine Canada's national foundations. In response, a spokesperson for the US State Department acknowledged the meeting, but stated that the US side did not "make any commitments."