What does Trump see in Canada's pro-China prime minister?



President Donald Trump seems wonderfully comfortable with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. He calls the Liberal leader “Mark” and “prime minister of Canada.”

Remember when it was “governor of the 51st state” for Trudeau?

Carney’s Jackson Hole speech flatly demanded that central banks collaborate and replace the US dollar to rectify its 'domineering influence' on trade around the world.

Trump has actually predicted that Carney will win the upcoming Canadian federal election and that he will be quite pleased with this result.

But the president is headed for a grim disappointment, because Carney is unlikely to do anything about an issue that Trump is viscerally concerned about: the fentanyl crisis.

Border disorder

Way back in late November 2024, Trump began to complain about Canada’s lax border security and the flow of fentanyl into the U.S. across that border and threatened to slap a 25% tariff on all Canadian products if these matters weren’t rectified.

Then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government responded with a laughable $1.3 billion border security plan that was spread over six years with most of the funding only being available in years four through six. Trudeau also appointed a fentanyl czar who had previously worked as security adviser to the prime minister.

Of course this was all a bit of window-dressing, since, as investigative journalist Sam Cooper has noted, shipments of fentanyl precursors continue to arrive at the port of Vancouver and the containers are ignored.

Trudeau part deux

If Trudeau has done nothing to stem the tide of fentanyl, why should we believe that Carney will do any differently, especially when he is even more beholden and more in awe of China than his predecessor?

Where Trudeau once infamously said that he admired the “basic dictatorship” of China because it could force its population to follow climate change policies “on a dime,” Carney is a constant acolyte of the People’s Republic and has been for years.

So why has Trump endorsed Carney as his choice to win the April 28 Canadian federal election? Does he really believe that Carney will either bolster border security or take the fentanyl crisis seriously? Does he not believe that Carney’s principal opponent, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, is not serious about rectifying border security and eradicating fentanyl abuse when he has made both part of his election policy package?

Just how beholden is Carney to China? The evidence continues to emerge during an election campaign that Carney has virtually walked through so far, ahead in virtually every poll after Trudeau took the Liberal Party to record lows before he announced his intention to resign on January 6.

Poilievre protests

Poilievre expressed outrage on March 26 that Carney had the gall to meet with Chinese central bank officials in October 2024 to negotiate a loan for the Carney-chaired Brookfield Assets Management.

Why the fuss? Carney was working as a special economic adviser to Trudeau at the time, and he was in Beijing to ostensibly represent Canadian interests, not personal or business ones. Carney left with a 1.96 billion yuan or $276 million (CDN) loan.

Poilievre called China “a hostile foreign regime that we have since learned executed four Canadians and took numerous Canadians hostage for a lengthy period of time” and wondered how Canadians could know if Carney was “not going to act against our interests in favor of his financial interests.”

The Conservative leader suggested it would be difficult for the new prime minister to “stand up to foreign interference when he is so financially compromised.” He described Carney as:

a weak, out-of-touch leader so terribly compromised and conflicted, whose interests go against our national interests. … Mark Carney will never be able to protect our national interests because he has massive financial conflicts of interest overseas. What we need now is not to give the Liberals a fourth term with a weak and compromised leader. What we need is a prime minister who will put Canada first for a change.

That was only the latest revelation of Carney’s double dealing.

Chinese democracy

Carney was the chairman of Brookfield when he announced that the company was moving its headquarters to New York City. That was just before he announced that he was running for the leadership of the Liberal Party.

Despite telling the Trudeau government to push net zero policies at the expense of Canada’s energy sector and to oppose the construction of pipelines, Carney operated Brookfield in an inverse fashion, investing billions in fossil fuels and pipelines not associated with Canada.

Carney has consistently promoted net zero policies while praising the environmental stewardship of China. As the United Nations special envoy for climate change and co-chair of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, Carney actually suggested that the world should look to China for climate change policy inspiration — and not look at the preponderance of coal-fired plants in that country.

"China has made a huge contribution to the fight against climate change, not only in terms of its massive investment in clean technologies and exporting them to other countries, but also in actively developing the financial system needed for the green transition," he said.

Yuan to grow on

It might also interest Trump that Carney has also been an advocate of the Chinese yuan replacing the U.S. dollar as the global currency. At the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium in 2019, Carney advocated for both the Chinese currency and also a "new synthetic hegemonic currency," to be used to replace the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

Carney’s Jackson Hole speech flatly demanded that central banks collaborate and replace the U.S. dollar to rectify its “domineering influence” on trade around the world.

In the same speech, Carney bemoaned the booming economy that America was experiencing under Trump. “Now that the United States’ economy is doing better than most, pushing the dollar higher, smaller countries are suffering more than they should. Trump’s tariffs on imports from China and elsewhere are adding to the dollar’s strength as well, making matters even worse.”

Carney went on to say:

And the most likely candidate for true reserve currency status, the Renminbi (RMB), has a long way to go before it is ready to assume the mantle. The initial building blocks are there. Already, China is the world’s leading trading nation, overtaking the US at the start of this decade. And the Renminbi is now more common than sterling in oil future benchmarks, despite having no share in the market prior to 2018.

So while Carney is campaigning in front of a podium that reads “Canada Strong” and is somehow satisfying a U.S. president who supports America First, it will be China Strong and China First under this globalist, environmental extremist central banker whose election this month would be toxic for both Canada and the United States.

Trump tariff boosting Trudeau's successor, Conservatives warn ahead of fed election



As the campaign to determine Canada's new prime minister continues, one issue remains at the forefront: President Donald Trump and the United States.

Locked in a close race with the Conservative Official Opposition, the governing Liberal Party got a vote of confidence from Trump himself, posted Friday, March 28, on X and Truth Social that he had phoned Carney and had “an extremely productive call.”

'I am now off to the US yet again to try and speak to Americans ... to convince their president to change course on tariffs against Canada.'

“I just finished speaking with Prime Minister Mark Carney, of Canada. It was an extremely productive call, we agree on many things, and will be meeting immediately after Canada’s upcoming Election to work on elements of Politics, Business, and all other factors, that will end up being great for both the United States of America and Canada. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Liberal leader Mark Carney, who only became prime minister just over a week before calling a snap federal election for April 28, was initially highly combative toward Trump as the president continued to threaten to impose a 25 % tariff on all Canadian products with the exception of oil and gas, which will be subject to a 10 % tariff.

However, Canada was not subject to any new tariffs when Trump expanded his program on April 2.

Dropped call?

Initially, Carney said that Trump wouldn’t talk to him. The confession was apparently inadvertent because Carney almost immediately tried to walk back the statement.

“The president is waiting for the outcome of the election and to see who has a strong mandate from Canadians or who has a mandate from Canadians. Is it someone … who is in sync with him, or is it someone who is going to stand up for Canadians? I am going to stand up for Canadians. I hope Canadians will back me, and then we'll have a discussion,” Carney told reporters on March 24.

“Did you say that President Trump is waiting to talk to the prime minister of whoever wins this election?” one reporter responded.

“Well, that's an interpretation, but I think it's a reasonable interpretation. I'm available for a call, but you know, we're going to talk on our terms as a sovereign country, not as what he pretends we are and on a comprehensive deal,” Carney said, not adding that Trump has said he would prefer to deal with a Liberal government under Carney than a Conservative one under Poilievre.

'Unjust and unfair'

The escalating trade war has divided provinces from the federal government, with Alberta’s Conservative Premier Danielle Smith, who was invited to the Trump inauguration, asking the president to hold off on the tariffs because the conflict is helping Carney and the Liberals to overtake the Conservatives in the election.

Smith, who has reached out to much of conservative U.S. media, recently told Breitbart that the “unjust and unfair tariffs” have “actually caused an increase in the support for the Liberals. And so that's what I fear, is that the longer this dispute goes on, politicians posture, and it seems to be benefitting the Liberals right now,” she said.

“So I would hope that we could put things on pause, is what I've told administration officials, let's just put things on pause so we can get through an election. Let's have the best person at the table make the argument for how they would deal with them, and I think that's [Conservative leader] Pierre Poilievre.”

Smith went on to say that Poilievre “doesn’t believe in any of the woke stuff” and that his perspective “would be very much in sync with, I think, the new direction in America.”

Pot calls kettle black

Liberals castigated Smith for asking the U.S. to “interfere” in the Canadian election — an ironic accusation since the Liberals have clearly been campaigning more against Donald Trump and the perceived American menace than even their Conservative Party opponents.

Smith appeared on Ben Shapiro’s podcast almost two weeks ago, and before leaving, the popular and populist premier defended that decision in the Alberta legislature.

“I am now off to the U.S. yet again to try and speak to Americans, this time through the second-largest podcaster in the world, whose audience is made up of exactly the people we need to persuade, to convince their president to change course on tariffs against Canada," Smith said. "And what does Team Carney want me to do? They want me to abandon my post, remain in Alberta, and do absolutely nothing to defend our province."

“They want me to cower in the face of eastern media pundits and politicians who favor political grandstanding to effective diplomacy. I'm fiercely criticized for going into the lion's den to change the hearts and minds of the very Americans that we need on Canada's side to avoid a trade war with the most powerful economy on Earth,” she continued.

Smith resolved that “this lady” may be expected to “just sit down and shut up” but that she is resolved to do otherwise.

“I will not be silent. Alberta will not be silent. We will not be pushed around and called traitors for merely having the courage to actually do something about our nation’s and province’s predicament, other than merely indulging in self-righteous tantrums.”

Dumb and dumber: New Canadian PM could be worse than Trudeau



Canada's incoming prime minister seems to have picked up on major leadership lesson from his predecessor, Justin Trudeau: When in doubt, blame Trump.

In his acceptance speech for the leadership, new Liberal Party leader Mark Carney wasted little time before attacking President Donald Trump.

Carney recently stated that in order to implement his agenda, he would have no problem invoking 'emergency powers' — the same powers that Trudeau used in his persecution of the Freedom Convoy.

Promising to keep “retaliatory tariffs” against the U.S. — even though Trump has deferred his 25% across-the-board tariff until April -- Carney cranked up the anti-Trump tough talk, invoking the full name of his nemesis three times.

There's someone who's trying to weaken our economy: Donald Trump. Donald Trump. And Donald Trump, as we know, has put, as the prime minister just said, unjustified tariffs on what we build, on what we sell, on how we make a living. He is attacking Canadian families, workers, and businesses, and we cannot let him succeed, and we won't.

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The Canadian government has rightly retaliated and is rightly retaliating with our own tariffs that will have maximum impact in the United States and minimum impact here in Canada. My government will keep our tariffs on until the Americans show us respect.

Carney won the March 9 to become the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. He will soon replace Trudeau as prime minister after what Trudeau has suggested will be a short period of transition.

Post-Trudeau bump for Libs

Canada is set to have a federal election this October. The Liberals were polling anywhere from 20 to 25 percentage points behind the Conservative Party of Canada until Trudeau announced his intention to retire as Liberal leader on January 6.

Since then, the Liberals have taken a two-point lead over Conservatives, with one recent poll suggesting a Liberal Party under Carney could win a majority government.

Much of this boost in popularity is thanks to the Liberals' demonization of Trump. But while Carney has been happy to espouse a Canada First message, his record is that of the ultimate globalist.

'Climate cartel'

The former governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, Carney's last job was as the United Nations’ special envoy on climate action and finance.

As that background would suggest, Carney brings with him a whole host of policies influenced by the climate change agenda and the Green New Deal. While at the U.N., Carney launched the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, an NGO designed to pressure corporations and banks to succumb to the net zero demands of the Paris climate accord; opponents have called it a “climate cartel."

Carney recently stated that in order to implement his agenda, he would have no problem invoking "emergency powers" — the same powers that Trudeau used in his persecution of the Freedom Convoy. Carny was Trudeau's economic adviser at the time.

One of those policies is a carbon tariff that Carney euphemistically refers to as the “carbon border adjustment mechanism.”

The idea is to impose a carbon tax on foreign companies that exceed Canadian net zero standards. The reality could be an exodus of businesses to the U.S.

'Embracing who we are'?

As if that weren't enough to instill unease, Carney also plans to "cancel" Trudeau's carbon tax on individuals — scheduled to increase by another 21% April 1 — by simply aiming it at Canadian corporations instead.

In his last speech as Liberal leader, Trudeau vowed that Canada would continue to "[show] what it is that makes us Canadians, not by defining ourselves by who we’re not, but by proudly embracing who we are."

Like Trudeau, Carney has made it clear what he thinks Canada should be. Time will tell if the people he seeks to govern have a different understanding of the national identity.

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Carney makes a fitter foe than Trudeau. So would a soggy, egg-battered slice of bread drowned in maple syrup.

If Canada turns down US statehood, what about just oil-rich Alberta?



If Canada won't take Donald Trump up on his offer to become the 51st state, one Canadian has a counteroffer: What about just Alberta?

Foothills, Alberta, lawyer Jeffrey Rath says he and a lot of Albertans have “had it” with the Trudeau government and, increasingly, even with Canada itself. He says if Canada isn’t interested in becoming the 51st state, then Alberta should accept President Donald Trump’s invitation.

'We're fed up, and we see no reason to continue being governed by complete idiots from Ontario and Quebec who don't even know where their oil comes from.'

As he wrote in a recent Substack post:

With the election of Donald Trump, Alberta has a unique opportunity to shed its inferior status as a Canadian "province" (effectively a colony of Ontario and Quebec) and become an American state.

There is no doubt that President Donald Trump would happily announce Alberta statehood as the greatest real estate deal since the Louisiana Purchase as the culmination of the American 250th anniversary celebration.

First steps

Rath has organized a blue-ribbon committee to move Alberta first on the road to independence and then to join the United States.

“We've had, I've said, several steering committee meetings today. I mean, I'm working with people. We're putting together a package of materials and briefing notes and those types of things," he told Align.

"We don't want to go down there [to Washington] and come across as anything other than serious professionals with a serious professional message that we want to deliver."

Although the immediate catalyst for Rath's plan was Trump's offer — as well as the current tariff crisis and trade war with the U.S. — Rath said he’s “been feeling this way” for three years at least.

Remember the Freedom Convoy

“I have to say, it really came to a head for me when [Canadian Prime Minister] Justin Trudeau unnecessarily declared the War Measures Act against my fellow Albertans who simply went to Ottawa to peacefully protest,” Rath said, in reference to Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act to crush the Freedom Convoy, a trucker-based protest against the COVID-19 mandates that was centered in Canada’s capital of Ottawa in February 2022.

Rath called Trudeau’s draconian measure "an anti-Canadian unconstitutional violation of our rights. … You know, we need to take our dirty, smelly diesel trucks and our dirty, smelly oil and go home, or face 10 years in an Ontario prison.”

Rath is also furious over the federal government's talk of using Alberta oil and gas to fight Trump’s tariff — despite Canadian law giving provinces jurisdiction over their natural resources.

"We're fed up, and we see no reason to continue being governed by complete idiots from Ontario and Quebec who don't even know where their oil comes from."

Ignorant threats

As evidence of this ignorance, Rath cited the federal government's threat in January to cut oil exports from Alberta to the U.S., a move that rankled local leadership.

"They were all too dumb to know that their own oil comes from Alberta, goes down through Michigan, up through Line 9 Illinois, and then back into Ontario and Quebec. So if they shut off Alberta oil, they would effectively be doing what a lot of Albertans suggested that we should do [in the first place] … let the Eastern bastards freeze in the dark."

Rath also slammed Ontario Premier Doug Ford for his continued threats to shut off the electricity to the U.S., saying doing so would constitute an "act of war."

"If you crash the northeast power grid, there's going to be at least 500 or 600 deaths, whether it's from traffic lights going out or ventilators [at hospitals] failing."

COVID all over again?

Rath compared the current euphoria over counter-tariffs against the U.S. to the pro-vaccine groupthink that dominated the country's media and government during the COVID pandemic. Like the vaccine, counter-tariffs are not the cure for what ails Canada.

For that, Rath suggests Canadians look closer to home.

“Everybody keeps forgetting that the Trudeau junta is preparing to slap us all with a 21% increase in the carbon tax in April."

Rath said this carbon tax would likely cripple the Canadian economy far more than any of Trump's tariffs. "It's right across the board on all energy, all home heating, trucks, cars, anything people need to go to work,” Rath told Align.

“And maybe the reason that Trudeau is so mad about this and thinks it's the end of Canada is because he doesn't want to back off on his 21% carbon tax. He's already booked that and cooked that into the books.”

Check out the full interview with Rath below:

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'I am happy to have a discussion'

Fentanyl from Canada is killing Americans — but Trudeau cares more about prosecuting the Freedom Convoy



Last week, world leaders in politics and tech convened in Paris for the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit.

Co-hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the summit also played host to vice president JD Vance on his first international mission.

A bust at the Port of Vancouver siezed 85 tons of fentanyl and methamphetamine, as well as ingredients to manufacture both.

Vance’s presence signaled the importance of the topics under discussion, which included the current arms race with China to achieve AI supremacy.

Despite the recent announcement of his plans to resign, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was also on hand to dispense the usual bromides about the need for clean energy to fuel our future robot overlords without offending the sky.

“With our G7 partners, we will be working to make sure the innovators have access to clean, reliable energy to power AI without hindering the fight against climate change,” Trudeau told the roundtable, which included Canadian and French officials, plus representatives from tech companies like Amazon, Dell, and IBM.

Faulty 'fact-check'

Bubbling under the surface at the summit was another issue: the current tensions between Canada and the United States over the 25% tariff President Trump just slapped on Canadian steel and aluminum.

The Canadian media’s reaction has been to circle the wagons to defend Dear Leader — unsurprising behavior from an industry on which Trudeau has lavished over $700 million in subsidies since 2019.

CTV News’ recent "fact-check" of Trump’s claims is representative. Only 0.2% of all fentanyl seized at the United States borders comes from Canada, the article proudly tells us. Never mentioned is another figure, much harder to calculate — the amount of Canadian fentanyl that customs fails to sieze.

While the mainstream Canadian media’s power is waning, it remains effective at shaping the narrative. Which is why most Canadians and Americans may not be aware of those reporters actually working to investigate this issue.

One such reporter is Sam Cooper, who has been digging deep into narcotics trafficking in Canada on his Substack, the Bureau.

Canada's drug hub

In a piece from last November, Cooper cites RAND Corporation defense researcher David Luckey, who traces the global supply chain of illegal fentanyl to China. Cooper than identifies Canada’s crucial role in this “ecosystem”:

“Reporting by The Bureau has found that British Columbia, and specifically Vancouver’s port, are critical transshipment and production hubs for Triad fentanyl producers and money launderers working in alignment with Mexican cartels and Iranian-state-linked criminals.”

In a recent viral YouTube interview, Cooper emphasizes that none of this is new, mentioning that a bust at the Port of Vancouver siezed 85 tons of fentanyl and methamphetamine, as well as ingredients to manufacture both.

In the same interview, Cooper points out that only .005% of shipping containers that move through the port are ever inspected.

Stories such as this incline one to doubt the mainstream media’s assertion that hardly any of the fentanyl destroying lives in America enters from the north.

So, too, does last October's bust of the largest Canadian fentanyl lab yet, deep in the British Columbia interior. Enough fentanyl was seized to kill everyone in Canada twice over.

This squares with a recent report from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Organized Crime Unit that at least 235 gangs in Canada are involved in the production and distribution of fentanyl.

Is it any wonder that Trump and American authorities have lost faith in the ability of the Canadian government to deal with the problem?

Border control 'a joke'

In another article, Cooper quotes a Canadian policing expert as saying that Homeland Security has “no respect” for the Canadian Border Services Agency. The expert continues.

“It was a long-standing joke that they were basically collecting taxes [from] a mom and dad driving back with two packs of cigarettes and too many six-packs of beer, while behind it, there’s a truck coming with 200, 300, 500 kilos of cocaine. It was just ridiculous.”

While the expert avers that there are some competent officers in the organization, the overall picture he presents is dire.

“It’s just run so poorly. The level of incompetence within Canadian law enforcement is staggering. I don’t think people understand — if they did, they’d probably be too scared to know how bad it actually is.”

The image of those trucks full of cocaine raises a question: Just who is transporting all of this fentanyl across the border?

Drug mule pipeline

In my own investigations, I found that one group of culprits keeps recurring in drug busts involving truckers at the border or within the United States: Punjabi immigrants.

Over the last few years, Canada’s trucking industry has absorbed a high number of Punjabi drivers, to the extent that they now account for 50% of the Toronto and Vancouver trucking markets.

Unfortunately, some of these new operators have been caught using immigration scams to bring their fellow countrymen to Canada as indentured servants, as reported in a 2019 investigation by Canada’s largest newspaper, the Globe and Mail.

Six years later, the government has done little to address this practice, which now seems to have a more sinister purpose than cost-cutting: the creation of an India-to-Canada pipeline for unwitting drug mules.

Then there are the more than $3 billion in U.S. fines recently levied against Toronto-Dominion Bank for fentanyl-connected money laundering. To appease his allies south of the border, Trudeau ordered increased helicopter patrols; how this measure is supposed to deter Triad drug traffickers and the corrupt bankers who help them remains to explained.

Head in the sand

Perhaps the strategy is simply to ignore what’s going on. That at least is the sense given by the recent sham inquiry into Chinese interference in Canadian politics. The justice handpicked by Trudeau somehow found nothing wrong, and no one was held to account.

Then again, Trudeau’s government was tied up with more pressing legal matters: namely, appealing last year’s Federal Court ruling that the use of the Emergencies Act to crack down on the truckers of the Freedom Convoy was a breach of Canadians' charter rights and “unjustified and unreasonable.”

“Unreasonable” is also a good word to describe Trudeau’s expenditure of scant enforcement resources and court time on chasing members of the Freedom Convoy to the ends of the Earth, rather than dealing with Canada’s growing and dangerous position as a global leader in fentanyl production and distribution.

At least, that’s how one imagines Trump might see the erstwhile leader of what he’s jokingly threatened to make 51st state: a man who’s wasted the last three years punishing the wrong group of truckers.

Trump’s new American foreign policy: ‘FAFO’



Less than a month into his second term, President Trump has already resumed his aggressive foreign policy, best summed up by a simple mantra: FAFO — “f**k around and find out.”

This phrase, which became the unofficial guiding principle of Trump’s first administration, continues to shape his global strategy. His early move, threatening new tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China, reinforces this approach.

America is back, with an aggressive foreign policy.

While the slogan may sound irreverent, it reflects a deliberate and forceful shift in U.S. foreign policy.

At the core of FAFO is a dramatic departure from the traditional diplomatic norms that have long defined America’s global posture. Under Trump, the United States has taken a hard line with both allies and adversaries, embracing an “America First” approach.

Trump has made it clear: America will no longer accept lopsided trade deals or unfair international agreements. And he is not afraid to wield economic power to ensure that the nation’s interests come first on the world stage.

What does FAFO mean in the context of foreign diplomacy? It’s about making bold moves without hesitation, challenging long-standing alliances, and demanding that other nations either step up to the plate or face consequences. For some, this was seen as reckless; for others, it was a refreshing change of pace after years of what they considered ineffectual or appeasing policies.

One of the clearest examples of Trump’s FAFO doctrine in action was his approach to NATO during his first term. Traditionally, the United States had served as the alliance’s primary protector and financial backer. Trump, however, demanded that European nations significantly increase their defense spending, making it clear that the U.S. would no longer be NATO’s “sugar daddy.” If allies refused to pay their fair share, they would face the consequences.

This was not just rhetoric — it was the foundation of Trump’s foreign policy.

His trade policies took a similarly aggressive stance, particularly against China. Instead of continuing the traditional path of diplomatic negotiations and trade concessions, Trump imposed tariffs, accused Beijing of unfair trade practices, and directly challenged China’s growing global influence.

In Trump’s view, the U.S. had been “playing nice” for too long while China exploited the system. His administration saw no reason to continue being accommodating — and made sure China felt the pressure.

That strategy remains in effect. On Feb. 2, Trump announced new tariffs on China, Canada, and Mexico — not to start a trade war, as many media outlets falsely claimed, but to pressure these countries into taking action to curb the flow of illegal drugs, especially fentanyl, into the United States.

Would the gambit work?

On Feb. 3, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the immediate deployment of 10,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a similar announcement later that same day. In response, Trump agreed to delay the tariffs on Mexico and Canada for one month.

Beyond Mexico and Canada, Trump has already scored several major foreign policy victories during his second term — each rooted in his FAFO strategy.

Colombia has agreed to accept flights of repatriated citizens who entered the United States illegally after first refusing to accept them. The change? Again, Trump threatened tariffs. Colombia capitulated and is accepting its citizens back into the country.

Venezuela freed six Americans who were being held illegally in the country after a very brief meeting with U.S. special envoy Richard Grenell. Venezuela has also agreed to accept the repatriation of its citizens illegally in the United States, including members of the brutal Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

Trump also decided to take out several leaders of ISIS in Somalia last weekend, launching airstrikes.

And, just for good measure, newly confirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio secured a commitment from Panama to withdraw from China’s Belt and Road Initiative and to maintain its sovereignty over the Panama Canal.

America is back, with an aggressive foreign policy. For those countries that do not believe it or want to challenge the new approach, Trump has shown that he has one thing to say: FAFO.

Trudeau has resigned, but his persecution of Canadians continues



Last week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the news once again, this time for officially announcing his "resignation."

What most Americans missed is that Trudeau is still the prime minister; his resignation doesn’t take effect until a new leader for the Liberal Party of Canada is chosen in late March.

The message Trudeau wants to send is clear: Oppose me and I can put you away for 10 years.

In the meantime, Trudeau has "prorogued" Parliament, a move that halts all accountability for anything he might do in the interim from Canada’s feckless opposition Conservative Party, who have been stymied in several attempts to remove him through non-confidence motions.

How convenient.

Especially as Trudeau continues to destroy innocent lives with what will be one of his legacy achievements: the vicious persecution of the trucker protesters.

The latest victim

Friday, January 10, the latest victim, 34-year-old father of four and former Fort Macleod, Alberta, town councilor Marco Van Huigenbos was sentenced to four months in prison.

His crime? Acting as a peaceful liaison between the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the group blockading the crossing of the Coutts, Alberta, border with Montana in protest of Trudeau’s COVID mandates. The RCMP were monitoring the crossing for the duration of the protest.

Another man charged in the same case, George Janzen, received a 90-day sentence, to be "served in the community." A third man, Alex Van Herk, has yet to face sentencing due to firing his legal counsel.

Van Huigenbos, Janzen, and Van Herk have become known as the Coutts Trio.

The Coutts Four

They are not to be confused with another group of political prisoners downstream of this same protest, the Coutts Four, recently found not guilty of the heinous and fantastical charge of "conspiring to murder police officers."

This charge allowed Canada’s heavily politicized judicial system — 77% of whose members are appointees of Trudeau’s party — to deny these men bail and incarcerate them for over two years before the trial began, despite none of them having a history of violence or criminal record.

Two of the four, Tony Olienick and Chris Carbert, remain in prison to this day for other charges. Strangely enough, the judge informed them of their sentences in a two-hour diatribe largely focused on the charge for which they were just found not guilty.

Judicial mischief

But back to the Coutts Trio. Just what were they charged with?

“Mischief.” Under Canadian law, this deceptively benign-sounding charge, centered on crimes against property, can bring up to ten years in prison.

The Trudeau regime has been charging anyone and everyone involved with the largest peaceful protest in the nation's history with "mischief" explicitly because of the broad interpretations it has been given in case law.

The message he wants to send is clear: Oppose me and I can put you away for 10 years.

In Stalinist Russa, according to Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago," this was so common that they had a phrase for it: copping a tenner.

No case? No problem

The trial of Van Huigenbos, Van Herk, and Janzen, like that of prominent Freedom Convoy “leaders” Chris Barber and Tamara Lich, was a farce, with literally nothing in the way of evidence that the men had engaged in any wrongdoing whatsoever.

Crown Prosecutor Stephen Johnson made his intent clear from the start: to prove that the men on trial were leaders of a revolutionary movement.

He face a crucial obstacle: The Coutts protest, much like those in Ottawa and other locations across Canada, was spontaneously organized and didn’t have leaders as such. And so Johnson focused on Van Huigenbos' well-intentioned efforts to mediate between protesters and police as "leadership."

Despite his best efforts to prove Van Huigenbos guilty of mischief, Johnson did not prove any of the charges and actually admitted it in his final arguments. He then told the jury he really didn’t have to prove they were leaders for the jury to find them guilty, because the fact that they were present at the protest was good enough to convict them.

The jury apparently agreed.

Nice knowing you

As Trudeau takes to American cable news for his carefully managed farewell tour, you won't hear any mention of the Coutts Trio. They, like Trudeau's grossly inept, authoritarian mismanagement of COVID, have been memory-holed.

Nor will you hear of Trudeau's disastrous policies around immigration and homelessness, or of the incalculable damage he's done to Canada's economy, social fabric, and reputation.

Meanwhile, Mark Carney recently announced his candidacy to replace Trudeau on Jon Stewart’s show. The former governor of both the Bank of Canada and theBank of England kept a straight face as he claimed to be a political outsider.

Clearly both men are more concerned with appealing to American elites than to their own people. This should give you some idea of the likelihood of Trudeau ever facing justice for his many crimes against Canada.

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