The Trump administration rankled Canadian officials Thursday following the admission that representatives of the U.S. government met with a group of separatists pushing for the province of Alberta to secede from the country. The meeting comes after months of President Donald Trump needling Canada, suggesting that he may push to annex the country and make it into the 51st U.S. state. British Columbia Premier David Eby on Thursday denounced the meeting, suggesting that the separatists committed an act of “treason” by meeting with the Trump administration. “I would expect that the U.S. administration should respect Canadian sovereignty and that they would confine their discussion about Alberta’s democratic process to Albertans and to Canadians,” she said. They want what the U.S. has got.”When asked Thursday by a reporter whether the Trump administration had engaged in “foreign interference,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney demurred, saying only that the U.S. should “respect Canadian sovereignty.”