In leaked meeting minutes from April 13th, 2026, Emmott Kelsey, co-founder of The Centurion Project, seems to state that private information from Elections Alberta may have been presented to Washington a few weeks prior.
"The current focus of The Centurion Project is the referendum. We are using a new developed app, it's actually so ground breaking that a few weeks ago it was presented to The Whitehouse. This is going to revolutionize how campaigns are run,” Kelsey said during the livestream.
The video of the livestream was posted online by user kapowless on reddit.
We have emailed the Centurion Project to clarify what they meant by this statement, and whether they showed Albertan voters' private information while demonstrating the app. It is also unclear who in the Whitehouse they showed this information to.
Although they did not respond in time for our deadline, we will update the piece with their clarifications or statement if we hear a response.
The app that they claim to have shown the Whitehouse is the searchable database of the list of electors which was legally provided to the Republican Party of Alberta, but obtained by The Centurion Project and leaked to the internet at large. Centurion Project was not supposed to have access to this list.
Centurion Project is a registered third party advertiser in Alberta.
Elections Alberta issued a court injunction to The Centurion Project to take down this list and shut down the app. The Centurion Project agreed to shut down the app and said they would comply with Elections Alberta.
The data breach is one of the largest in Alberta's, and potentially Canada’s, history. It contains the names, postal codes, telephone numbers and other private information of nearly 3 million residents - more than half the population of the province.
The Centurion Project has close connections with other Alberta separatist groups, most notably one of its cofounders, David Parker, is also the founder of Take Back Alberta, which was fined $120,000 for political financing violations. Danielle Smith criticized David Parker a few years ago, saying that he was bullying Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and his wife.
The meeting was chaired by FreedomCalendar.net, a pro-separatism website for conservative grassroots news, which has interviewed multiple UCP party officials regarding their stances on separatism.
This scandal has been rocking the province for a week now. A journalist from The Line sent Elections Alberta notice of the data breach. They had originally received an anonymous tip showing that the data leak had been publicly available on the internet since at least late March.
Premier Smith has continued to reiterate that she doesn’t want a separate Alberta, and that she is leading the push for a “sovereign Alberta within a united Canada.” However that reassurance isn't convincing most Albertans - a majority of the province believes Danielle Smith would vote to separate if a referendum is held.
We have reached out to the premier’s office for comment on this development, but they did not respond before the deadline.