'AMERICAN INVASION': Flailing Canada PM Mark Carney invokes historical grudge in latest lob at Trump

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney clearly misses the campaign trail.

A year ago he won the election on the promise that he alone could handle Donald Trump and deliver a stronger trade deal under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

The irony, of course, is that in 1812, Canada did not exist as an independent country.

But talk is cheap. When Carney went to Washington, he struck a flattering tone — calling Trump “transformative” — and came away empty-handed.

Now he’s back to his familiar “elbows up” rhetoric, declaring the age of America over. What better way to shift the focus from his utter lack of progress than a little political theater?

So on Sunday, Carney gave himself the biggest stage he could find: a carefully produced video, packaged and presented as a national address.

This is something Canadian prime ministers almost never do outside real national emergencies. Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, Justin Trudeau reserved major televised appeals for announcing concrete measures — lockdowns, restrictions, and public health directives.

Familiar message

There was nothing urgent about Carney's speech. It was less an address than a political ad, polished and prepackaged and paid for by taxpayers.

The message was a familiar one: America is a lost cause, and Canada must move on:

The world ... is more dangerous and divided. The U.S. has fundamentally changed its approach to trade, raising its tariffs to levels last seen during the Great Depression. Many of our former strengths, based on our close ties to America, have become our weaknesses — weaknesses that we must correct.

The correction? Carney's "Canada Strong" plan, which calls for "attract[ing] new investment," "striking new partnerships abroad," and "taking back control of our security, our borders, and our future."

It’s the same argument Carney made in Davos and the same one he repeated at the Liberal Party convention in Montreal. What made it different was a bizarre digression about Canadian history — complete with visual aids and celebrity name-dropping.

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Model diplomacy

Brandishing a tiny figurine of General Isaac Brock — the British officer killed defending what would become Canada during the War of 1812 — Carney praised him for his resistance to the "threat of an American invasion." Noting that the figurine was a recent gift from "Austin Powers" star — and fellow Canadian — Mike Myers, Carney said he keeps it on his desk as a reminder that "when we are united as Canadians, we can withstand anything."

Even the self-inflicted wound of turning our back on our closest neighbor?

The irony, of course, is that in 1812, Canada did not exist as an independent country. It was a British colony, defended as part of an empire that spanned the globe. Today, Canada is economically, militarily, and geographically bound to the United States in ways that make the comparison absurd.

Empty bluster

The two countries are each other’s largest trading partners. Their industries are integrated, and their defense arrangements are intertwined. Whatever Carney may suggest, Canada is not pivoting across the Atlantic any time soon.

And if it tried, the costs would be immediate.

Carney warns against “nostalgia” while offering nothing but slogans. No major housing breakthrough. No completed energy corridor to global markets. No visible shift that would justify the sweeping language of national reinvention.

In short, Carney has yet to reveal a coherent strategy to replace the relationship he is so eager to downplay. Until then, his anti-American bluster is like the toy soldier on his desk — just for show.

Appeals court slams Trudeau’s ‘emergency’ trucker crackdown

Canada’s Liberal government has lost its bid to overturn a 2024 Federal Court ruling that found its use of the Emergencies Act during the Freedom Convoy trucker protest was neither justified nor reasonable.

Then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the legislation for the first time on Feb. 14, 2022, authorizing a sweeping police crackdown on protesters in Ottawa who opposed the federal government’s COVID-19 mandates.

'That was a 200-page document. I don’t know how many people can read 200 pages in 20 minutes.'

Trigger-happy

On Tuesday, the Federal Court of Appeal rejected the government’s appeal of a decision by Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley, who concluded that invoking the Emergencies Act was unnecessary and violated protesters’ rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Mosley found that the demonstrations, while disruptive, were peaceful and did not meet the threshold required to trigger emergency powers.

The Trudeau government filed its appeal within minutes of Mosley’s ruling, arguing that the measures were justified on national security grounds. The appeals court rejected that claim.

“There was no evidence that the lives, health or safety of the people living in Ottawa were endangered (as annoying, stressful and concerning as the protests were),” the court wrote.

Surprised by outcome

In an interview with Align, Freedom Convoy organizer Chris Barber — who was later sentenced to one year of house arrest for his role in the protest — said he was surprised by the outcome.

"I've seen over the last four years how the Crown's office or the government can use and up the level of court to find the judges they want to get what they want for a decision," Barber said. “And today, that didn’t work for them.”

Barber emphasized that Justice Mosley was not sympathetic to the Freedom Convoy but nevertheless ruled against the government on legal grounds.

“He was not favorable to the Freedom Convoy,” Barber said.

“He was very much against us, but still he upheld the rule of law and judged things according to the Charter. And today we won that one in the appeals court."

Barber also criticized the speed with which the Trudeau government appealed the original ruling.

“The government appealed this decision in 20 minutes," he said.

“That was a 200-page document. I don’t know how many people can read 200 pages in 20 minutes. ... As you can see yet again, the Liberal government of Canada is one of the most spiteful governments we've possibly ever had in this country — full of corruption."

He added that the ruling raises serious questions about accountability within the Liberal government and asked why no officials have resigned over the unlawful use of emergency powers.

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Standing with Katie Pasitney

Barber pointed to what he described as another example of government overreach: the recent seizure of Universal Ostrich Farms, where the Canadian Food Inspection Agency took control of the property and euthanized livestock.

“The mess the CFIA left on the grounds of that property is absolutely disgusting,” Barber said. “That is a government agency that basically walked in, took full, total control of their property, [and] euthanized their animals like a 1930s death squad.”

He praised farm spokeswoman Katie Pasitney for continuing to demand accountability.

“There’s still no accountability for the actions of the CFIA,” Barber said. “And I hope Katie continues to stand her ground and keeps speaking about that — and people wake up to what’s going on in this country.”

JD Vance to Canada: Stop blaming Trump for your decline

Vice President JD Vance did something remarkable last week: He described Canada more honestly than most of its own political leaders.

In a short series of posts on X, Vance captured the two anxieties that now define Canadian life — mass immigration and a refusal to take responsibility for national decline.

The deeper problem is leadership that seems consistently more focused on the fortunes of global capital than the welfare of Canadians.

“While I'm sure the causes are complicated,” he wrote, “no nation has leaned more into ‘diversity is our strength, we don't need a melting pot we have a salad bowl’ immigration insanity than Canada. It has the highest foreign-born share of the population in the entire G7 and its living standards have stagnated.”

Vance continued, “And with all due respect to my Canadian friends, whose politics focus obsessively on the United States: your stagnating living standards have nothing to do with Donald Trump or whatever bogeyman the CBC tells you to blame. The fault lies with your leadership, elected by you.”

Truth hurts

Those comments struck a nerve because they describe a reality that Canadians live with every day. Immigration levels have soared to historic highs. Canada’s population is closing in on 40 million, with roughly 23% foreign-born in the 2021 census — and likely much higher today, given the recent revelation that 42% of babies born in 2025 will have foreign-born mothers. For years, political and media elites insisted that this was a sign of national strength. Ordinary people can now see the strain everywhere: stagnant wages, collapsing services, unaffordable housing, and infrastructure buckling under the load.

Vance’s second point was equally accurate. Canadian politicians — especially Liberal ones — have long relied on Trump as a universal scapegoat. No matter the problem, the reflexive response has been to point south and blame “American extremism” for Canada’s failures. It was a convenient distraction from the consequences of their own policies.

Man with no plan

Prime Minister Mark Carney was a master of this blame-shifting. Before entering politics, he spent years burnishing his reputation as a global technocrat. Yet when he ran for prime minister, he adopted an almost paranoid tone toward the United States, claiming in one speech: “President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us. … We need a plan to deal with this new reality.” His “plan,” as it turned out, was simply to win power — and once in office, Carney abandoned the rhetoric even as he continued neglecting basic economic and security interests.

Nowhere has that neglect been clearer than in defense procurement. Ottawa is reportedly considering scrapping the F-35 fighter jet program in favor of Sweden’s Gripen — an aircraft incompatible with the F-35s flown by every branch of the U.S. military and central to NORAD’s interoperability. As U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra has warned repeatedly, such a move would be sheer folly, undermining both North American defense and Canada’s most vital alliance.

The deeper problem is leadership that seems consistently more focused on the fortunes of global capital than the welfare of Canadians. Brookfield Asset Management — the firm Carney chaired before deciding to seek the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada and replacing Justin Trudeau as prime minister — recently surfaced in headlines for its involvement in an $80 billion agreement with the Trump administration to produce nuclear reactors. That deal may be good business, but it has only reinforced public suspicion that Carney’s loyalties were formed long before he stepped into elected office.

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Soft authoritarianism

Meanwhile, Canada’s once-vaunted bureaucracy is looking increasingly ideological, unaccountable, and hostile to the people it purports to serve. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s ongoing occupation of a family farm — and its insistence on slaughtering hundreds of healthy ostriches despite nearly a year without symptoms of avian flu — has alarmed Canadians across the political spectrum. It is the kind of aggressive, unrestrained government action that would have been unthinkable a generation ago.

All of this is unfolding as the Liberal government pursues sweeping censorship and surveillance legislation, from online speech controls to broad new powers for federal regulators. The United Kingdom has already slid into a soft authoritarianism that polices “offensive” speech through arrests and intimidation. Canada appears determined to follow the same path.

This is what Vance was speaking to: a country drifting into economic stagnation, cultural fragmentation, bureaucratic overreach, and political corruption. A country that no longer seems capable of telling itself the truth about what is happening. A country that responds to national crises not with reform, but with scapegoats — whether Donald Trump, American conservatives, or anyone who challenges the official narrative.

Canada is not yet lost. But it is undeniably breaking, and the political class shows little interest in repairing it.

As Vance noted, the ultimate responsibility lies with Canadians themselves. They elected the leadership that brought the country to this point. Whether Canada recovers will depend on whether they are willing to demand something better.

Naomi Wolf continues to expose COVID vaccine: 'A depopulating technology'

Naomi Wolf's 1991 best-seller “The Beauty Myth” made her the most prominent face of so-called "third-wave feminism" and a darling of the liberal elite. The young Yale graduate and Rhodes scholar served as an adviser to both President Bill Clinton and — during his 2000 presidential run — Vice President Al Gore.

But then the COVID pandemic hit. For voicing her concerns about vaccine mandates and draconian lockdowns, Wolf found herself deplatformed from Twitter, marginalized as a so-called conspiracy theorist, and rejected by the same powerful Democrats who had once made her a star.

'A 13% to 20% drop in live births around the world, especially in Western, highly vaccinated countries.'

From Ms. to MAHA

Wolf, in turn, has left the Democrats behind. Seeing current Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. join the Trump campaign last year convinced her to endorse "the MAGA-MAHA ticket," she tells me via video call.

"I think it's a great thing for the country for these two groups of voters to be in alignment," she continues.

"What we're seeing right now ... the combination is making the Democratic Party obsolete. And as a lifelong Democrat, I wouldn't have ... said that was a good thing, except that the Democratic Party has turned into such a toxic, marginalized, self-marginalizing stew of festering special interests.”

With last year's release of “The Pfizer Papers,” based on the research of over 3,000 health care volunteers, edited by Wolf and Amy Kelly, Wolf has cemented her reputation as a courageous and supremely eloquent opponent of government overreach and globalist encroachment on public policy and free speech.

Neither safe nor effective

Wolf says that research points to the inescapable fact that Pfizer knew its vaccine was neither safe nor effective but released it on the public regardless because of an agenda that went way beyond mere corporate greed.

Wolf has sat down for this interview to discuss that research, which she recently presented before before the European Union Parliament after an invitation from German MEP Christine Anderson.

I note that Canada, too, has finally begun to question the efficacy and safety of the vaccine with the release of “Post-Covid Canada: The Rise of Unexpected Deaths” from the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms.

'My heart breaks for Canada'

For Wolf, this is a long time coming. In her view, the situation to her north is even worse than in her home country, with former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau overseeing "a horrible overall collapse of civil liberties and the rule of law ... and even basic norms of decency around life itself."

"My heart breaks for Canada all the time," Wolf continues.

“You have no Second Amendment. You have no First Amendment. People are scared — you know, when I go to Canada, people are really scared of what's going to happen to them if they are identified as critical of the government. You know, the poor truckers got de-banked and had to fight that fight back in 2022.”

Wolf describes Canada's major media as being “owned by your government," noting that “there’s been almost no coverage of 'The Pfizer Papers' in Canada."

I mention that Freedom Convoy trucker and protester Chris Barber could not only receive an eight-year sentence for “mischief" (the label the Crown has slapped on his peaceful protest), but could actually have his truck — the now iconic “Big Red” — expropriated by the Ontario provincial government and destroyed. Wolf is aghast.

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A feature, not a bug

For her part, Wolf has not faced any legal pushback from Pfizer, despite repeatedly calling out the pharmaceutical giant for its alleged culpability in vaccine injuries and deaths.

Nor is Wolf afraid to employ a comparison even her allies may find inflammatory, likening Pfizer's "Pregnancy and Lactation" report to "Nazi science" for the cavalier way it acknowledges the human toll of the vaccines.

“I'm not equating it with Nazi atrocities as a whole, in terms of scale,” Wolf says of the eight-page report Pfizer delivered to President Biden and then-CDC Director Rochelle Walensky.

"But it's a very terrifying document, because it showcases all the deaths and injuries to women and babies that Pfizer knew their injection had brought about, and ... it seems to be communicating the damage to women's reproduction is not a bug, but a feature of the injection, like, ‘Look how effective it is.’ For instance, they've got two babies who died in utero, and Pfizer concludes that it's due to maternal exposure to the vaccine.”

Drop in live births

Wolf notes that this information did not stop Walensky from urging the vaccine on pregnant women or women intending to get pregnant in August of that year.

"So that sequence of events in itself really raises questions, because she knew this would kill babies," says Wolf, raising the specter of infamous Nazi medical experimenter Dr. Josef Mengele.

"I don't make this comparison lightly," says Wolf, who is Jewish and notes that her grandparents lost a total of eight siblings to the Holocaust. "[But the report is] very Nazi medicine in its methodology, because there are charts. And one of the characteristics of Nazi medicine is [being] meticulous about horrific crimes and suffering.”

“So there are charts in this pregnancy and lactation report that show tens of thousands of women injured menstrually; 15,000 women bleeding every day, 10,000 women bleeding twice a month ... 7,500 women with no periods at all, meaning [that they're] totally infertile."

"A 13% to 20% drop in live births around the world, especially in Western, highly vaccinated countries," Wolf says, noting that "that's the takeaway in Canada as well."

Sinister finding

So was this all about the profit margin?

“As a journalist, I try never to go beyond the evidence. … I went into the project thinking, ‘Oh, I'm going to find out that they were just greedy, or they just cut corners.’ That's not what we found at all,” Wolf says.

The truth, according to her, is far more sinister. “There are a number of data points that show that Pfizer intended to create a depopulating technology and that all the people up and down the chain of command — CDC, FDA, the president — knew," Wolf says.

"That's why I think the pregnancy and lactation report is so important, and that that was the main function — is to depopulate the West and also to create a massive scale of injury and and death, in addition to sterilization and pregnancy loss.”

Canada still bent on seizing Freedom Convoy symbol ‘Big Red’

Back in April, the longest mischief trial in Canadian history wrapped up against Chris Barber and Tamara Lich, prominent faces of the most successful populist uprising in recent history: Canada’s Freedom Convoy.

In a trial that is estimated to have cost the Canadian taxpayer upwards of $10 million and dragged on for 20 months (as crimes like the September 2023 drive-by mass shooting of an Ottawa wedding remain unsolved), crown attorneys debated the meaning of terms like “hold the line” while they doggedly pursued guilty verdicts for Barber and Lich, downplaying the entirely nonviolent character of the duo’s actions, as well as their full cooperation with police.

The hardworking Barber family represents an archetype in Canada, hardy settlers who tamed a vast wilderness, contending with harsh winters and vast distances few will understand.

Lich and Barber were eventually both found guilty of “mischief,” a property charge under Canadian law that can carry a 10-year prison sentence. Barber was also found guilty on a separate charge of counseling to disobey a court order. The Crown is seeking to put Lich away for seven years, and Barber for eight, sending a clear signal to Canadians: Don’t you dare oppose us ever again.

Enemies of the state

In her finding of guilt, Justice Heather Perkins McVey came to the conclusion that public enjoyment of the streets of Ottawa were of a weightier and more important consideration than Lich and Barber’s rights to protest, even though Lich didn’t park a truck on any street herself, and Barber’s rig was parked in places Ottawa police told him to park it.

Again, for a pair of normal working-class people with no criminal records whom the Canadian government turned into enemies of the state, they were awfully cooperative with cops and the city of Ottawa, contra Justin Trudeau’s state media making them out to be dangerous insurrectionists.

Sentencing on their convictions will take place on October 7. In the meantime, the province of Ontario, lead by Doug Ford (brother of the late, infamous Toronto mayor Rob Ford), is seeking to impose an even more egregious punishment against Barber and his family: seizing his iconic 2003 Kenworth W900L rig, “Big Red,” which has become one of the defining symbols of the Freedom Convoy.

Red notice

As I wrote here back in April:

Barber’s rig had become a symbol of the Freedom Convoy, featured in thousands of pictures, videos, and memes, as it led the Western Canadian Convoy to Ottawa. Barber has owned and operated that truck since 2003 and put 3.4 million kilometers (roughly 2.1 million miles) on it, mostly hauling heavy agricultural equipment across his home province of Saskatchewan and picking up new equipment from factories in America for his customers.

In the 22 years Barber has owned and operated that truck, he has raised his children in it over trips too many to count, and when his dog Buddy was approaching the end of his life, the poor old dog was put down while lying on the passenger seat: Buddy's favorite place to be.

Under the Emergencies Act, Barber (like many others) had his bank account frozen; the Crown never mentioned anything about seizing Barber’s truck. Perhaps it was a “backup” punishment once a federal court ruled that Trudeau’s invocation of the act was unconstitutional. (Under the administration of Trudeau’s successor, former governor of the Banks of Canada and England Mark Carney, an appeal to that ruling is working its way through the courts.)

Passing the buck

Who initiated this wicked and capricious forfeiture process? We may never know. Testifying at the first day of hearings about seizing Big Red last week — Friday, September 12 — Det. Kari Launen of the OPS Provincial Asset Forfeiture Unit claimed that it was all his idea.

As Lich posted on X:

When asked if he had been directed by the crown to commence this investigation, the detective said he was not. He says he gets requests but it is up to him due to his lengthy career and extensive experience to decide how and when to investigate. He then volunteered that he wasn’t directed by the crown but only commenced the investigation after he’d had some meetings with the crown (in which he was definitely NOT directed by the crown).

The Invisible Man must have telepathically communicated these investigative urges into his psyche. He clarified that he was not directed but “given a task,” again by No One.

It is interesting that Detective Launen claims to have such latitude in deciding what to investigate. Consider the experience of one of his colleagues, Ottawa Police Service Detective Helen Grus. Grus was recently censured for taking it upon herself to investigate a string of nine infant deaths that occurred around Ottawa in the aftermath of the COVID vaccine rollout.

Strange that Grus — part of the Sexual Assault and Child Abuse unit — should be reprimanded for investigating deaths clearly within her purview, while Launen’s interest in the ownership records of a truck from a province on the other side of the country should raise nary an eyebrow.

Still truckin’

Last week I spoke with Barber by phone. He was behind the wheel of Big Red, speaking with me via Bluetooth headset, en route through Saskatchewan while doing what he does best — moving the massive agricultural machinery which helps the Canadian Prairies produce grains which feed the world its daily bread.

“We hired Brendan Miller from Calgary to represent CB Trucking, the company my son and I own 50/50, and my lawyer Diane Magas from Ottawa was there as well," Barber told me.

"Miller threw a wrench into things; normally Ottawa Court is staid and procedural, but Miller really went deep into case law, and it seemed like he was teaching Justice Perkins-McVey at times. ... The Crown got angry when Miller accused them of acting in bad faith.”

Chris Barber

Family target

The Crown has now also set its sights on Barber’s son Jonathan. Why, they ask, did Barber give Jonathan a 50% stake in the family trucking company — and, by extension, an ownership stake in Big Red — after first facing charges in 2022?

But what the court bizarrely frames as a tacit admission of guilt likely has a much more straightforward explanation. Facing the potential destruction of his business in the wake of these criminal charges as well as a nearly $300 million civil suit brought by a group of citizens in Ottawa (who, it ought be noted, have brought no such such suit against the Hamas enthusiasts who have been harassing the citizens of Ottawa with impunity for nearly two years straight), it only made sense for Barber to try and protect his business assets via a fairly common transfer of partial ownership. Add to that the fact that seizure of Big Red wasn’t even on the table until a few months ago.

None of that is enough to satisfy the Crown, apparently: Both Jonathan and Barber’s parents have been called to testify this Thursday, in these painfully slower and somehow more evil Kafka-esque proceedings which resumed Monday, September 22.

‘A tough kid’

“Jonathan is a tough kid,” Barber told me of his son, who recently survived more or less unscathed a collision that tore his Peterbilt rig apart (an impatient fellow trucker attempted to pass Jonathan as he attempted to negotiate a major turn with the same kind of massive equipment his dad hauls).

“He’s really stepped up to the plate in managing the business while I have been busy with court and lawyers meetings and all the travel to Ottawa,” Barber continued.

Given that Barber and his family live outside the Saskatchewan town of Swift Current, (known by locals and old school truckers as “Speedy Creek”) a little over 1,800 miles from Ottawa, the last two years of trial have involved an incredible amount of travel. Barber’s parents only live three-quarters of a mile away and often stop in to feed and water his horses and dogs while he is in Ottawa or away trucking.

While I spoke with Chris, his daughter Sierra escorted him in a pilot truck, a mandatory requirement for loads the size Barber specializes in.

Canadian archetype

The hardworking Barber family represents an archetype in Canada, hardy settlers who tamed a vast wilderness, contending with harsh winters and vast distances few will understand. These were the vast majority of Freedom Convoy participants, who easily managed the logistics and likewise dealt with the cold Ottawa winter, so it is no surprise that a government that seeks to make people weak and dependent continues to attack them.

In a video Barber posted online, he explained what he and his family are up against:

Because [prosecutors] are so vindictive and so hateful and so spiteful, they want more.

Our fear is right now that if the judge ... throws the forfeiture out, that allows the Crown to then go back to the province of Saskatchewan at a later date and say, ‘We want that truck, and we want you to help.’ So what we’re trying to do right now is bat that right out of the bloody park, and that’s going to prolong things. We’re talking probably six months of trial. We’re talking possibly Supreme Court.

Barber has already gone through the longest mischief trial in the history of the nation and has been the subject of the most vicious and protracted lawfare the country has ever seen — all for his role in peacefully resisting Canada’s draconian vaccine mandates.

That the government is now so bent on destroying a potent symbol of that resistance reveals something deeply authoritarian about both the Liberal-controlled Canada of the last decade and the managerial regimes of so many other countries that acted in a similar fashion. Americans should take note.

Justin Trudeau offered to save migrants from Trump; 8 years later Canadians are still paying the price

On January 28, 2017, in the immediate aftermath of President Trump’s first travel ban, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sent out a tweet that would reverberate far beyond social media:

To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength. #WelcomeToCanada.”

Migrants and asylum-seekers in the United States took Trudeau at his word, and within weeks, illegal crossings over the Quebec-New York border surged, centered on a rural stretch known as Roxham Road.

The majority of the border-crossers are from Haiti; any of them could well have come from Springfield, Ohio, where the Biden administration dumped thousands of Haitian 'refugees.'

The surge was driven by a quirk in the Safe Third Country Agreement, a treaty between Canada and the U.S. dating back to 2004. Under the deal, asylum-seekers are supposed to file their claims in the first safe country they arrive in.

But the STCA applied only at official checkpoints. Those who walked across back roads like Roxham were exempt — and once on Canadian soil, they were entitled to have their cases heard. This loophole transformed Roxham into the busiest irregular crossing in the country.

Invite revoked

What began as symbolic anti-Trump signaling had become a full-blown crisis by the time Joe Biden took office in January 2021. Quebec’s shelters and reception centers filled beyond capacity, municipalities complained of mounting costs, and national polls showed Canadians increasingly skeptical of how the border was being managed.

The issue also spilled across the border. Even as Biden faced criticism for presiding over border chaos in Texas and Arizona, his administration quietly pressed Ottawa to rein in irregular migration to the north. In March 2023, Trudeau and Biden announced an expanded Safe Third Country Agreement that closed the Roxham Road loophole, giving Canadian officials authority to turn back asylum-seekers anywhere along the border if caught within 14 days of entry.

Smuggle session

The irony was hard to miss: Washington was leaning on Canada to tighten a rural crossing in Quebec at the very moment its own southern border remained mired in crisis. Trudeau’s lofty promise of welcome had ended, six years later, in a deal to keep more people out.

But Roxham Road is very much open today — thanks to organized crime groups making a tidy profit from smuggling people across the border.

A recent investigation by Rebel News confirmed reports of rampant human trafficking after Churubusco, New York, resident Jerry Miller contacted the conservative news outlet about an escalation in activity at the border.

According to Miller, the vast majority of those being surreptitiously moved across the border are from Haiti; any of them could well have come from Springfield, Ohio, where the Biden administration dumped thousands of Haitian “refugees.”

Haitians head north

Why are they heading north?

Their motivation to come to Canada could certainly be linked to Trump’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status for more than 500,000 Haitians living in the U.S. A Rebel News reporter found Haitian ID cards at the scene, along with discarded backpacks, clothes, and food.

In one night, a Rebel News reporter using an infrared camera caught 23 people crossing.

Hunter Robare, who lives on the same street as Miller, described the situation. "It's every day."

"It can be pretty nerve-racking," Robare added. "Just being at home and you have a group of people walking down the road; you don't know their intentions."

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Legal increase

Of course, this is just illegal immigration. Under Trudeau and continuing under Prime Minister Mark Carney, legal immigration increased at rates not seen in over a century.

The combination of chronic illegal immigration and lax legal immigration is producing a potential economic catastrophe for Canada, prompting Alberta Immigration Minister Joseph Schow to demand that the federal government accurately assess the illegal immigrant population.

“I’m not going to sugarcoat it: We believe there’s 500,000 illegal immigrants currently spread across Canada, and these individuals are benefiting from taxpayer-funded services,” said Schow.

Meanwhile, more than eight years after Trudeau's fateful invitation, the human traffickers at Roxham Road continue to thrive.

Freedom Convoy sentencing straight from anarcho-tyranny playbook

You may not have heard the term “anarcho-tyranny” in a while — maybe never. But it’s the only phrase that fits what’s unfolding in Canada right now: a system that punishes peaceful political dissent while letting real criminals off easy. It’s lawfare in service of regime security.

That was true under Justin Trudeau, and it’s even more apparent under his successor, Prime Minister Mark Carney — a globalist banker who cashed in on political connections and now presides over a government determined to crush dissent.

Even if Barber and Lich are granted the absolute discharge that their lawyers are requesting, the Liberal government has proven its point: Defy us, and we will ... ruin your life.

Drawn-out sentencing

Just look at the ongoing prosecution of Chris Barber and Tamara Lich, two of the main organizers of the 2022 Freedom Convoy — the trucker-led protest that captured global attention when thousands of Canadians rolled into Ottawa to peacefully demand an end to COVID-19 mandates and lockdowns.

The trial began shortly after Labor Day 2023. On April 3, 2024, the pair were found guilty of mischief, but nearly six months later, they still haven’t been sentenced. Their next court date isn’t until October 7.

That makes this the longest mischief trial in Canadian history.

Let’s be clear: Barber and Lich face up to eight and seven years in prison, respectively. For mischief. For organizing a protest. The Crown — Canada’s prosecution — has also filed a request to seize Barber’s truck, known as “Big Red,” an icon of the convoy.

Extraordinary harm?

At a sentencing hearing last week in Ottawa, Crown prosecutor Siobhain Wetscher argued that the two were “criminally responsible for extraordinary harm.” She’s pushing for a seven-year sentence for each, plus an additional year for Barber for “counselling others to disobey a court order.”

A separate hearing to decide on the truck’s forfeiture is set for August 12.

Meanwhile, the presiding judge, Justice Heather Perkins-McVey, admitted during the hearing that she was unaware that convoy participants and even donors had their bank accounts frozen by the Trudeau government under the Emergencies Act — a chilling use of power that shocked observers around the world.

Worse than manslaughter

Think about it: In Canada, people are routinely sentenced to six years for manslaughter. Rapists and violent criminals often serve far less. Car thieves are let out on bail and vanish. But organize a peaceful protest against the ruling party’s COVID regime? You get dragged through court for two years and potentially thrown in prison for nearly a decade.

Even if Barber and Lich are granted the absolute discharge that their lawyers are requesting, the Liberal government has proven its point: Defy us, and we will drain your finances, squander your time, and ruin your life. As both Barber and Lich have told me, “The process is the punishment.”

Courtesy Chris Barber

Third-world politics

This is not a free society. This is selective repression. Canada now only permits political protest that aligns with the Liberal Party’s agenda. March for climate, Pride, or Palestine? No problem. Challenge government overreach or reject the woke orthodoxy? Prepare for hell.

This is a Canada out of step with both Trump’s America — where woke politics and deep-state control are under attack — and much of Europe, where populist movements are rising, lockdown policies are being questioned, and citizens are reclaiming sovereignty from unelected elites.

To put it bluntly, this is third-world politics without the tropical weather.

The very idea that two peaceful protest organizers could spend eight years in prison should alarm anyone who still believes in democracy, civil liberties, or basic proportionality in the justice system.

But this is the state of Canada in 2025.

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Canada declares independence from Liberal censorship — with Donald Trump's help

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that his government would rescind the Digital Services Tax. Yes, Carney caved.

Canadians should be relieved.

Within 48 hours, the PM was on the mat, again acquiescing to Trump even after his finance minister had categorically rejected abandoning the tax.

The Liberal government enjoys inventing new ways to tax both Canadians and anyone doing business in Canada. Canada is the home of the Goods and Services Tax and the Harmonized Sales Tax.

Now it was about to have a DST.

Punitive taxation

Of course, taxation for globalists like Carney has nothing to do with raising money. He can always print more money. Taxation has become punitive — either punishing the poor hapless citizens with an ever-increasing tax burden or using taxation to prevent Canadians from receiving anything not officially sanctioned by the Liberal government.

In this case, it’s about restricting access to unacceptable news.

On June 30, U.S. tech companies operating in Canada were expected to begin paying the DST — a 3% tax on all their Canadian earnings. And it would have been retroactive to 2022. The cost was estimated to be over $2 billion, but the experts were probably lowballing it.

On June 27, President Donald Trump announced that if the DST was not scrapped, trade talks between Canada and the U.S. would be terminated.

We have a great relationship with the people of Canada, but it's been very difficult, and they put a charge, and they were a little bit early. We found out about it, and we have all the cards. We have every single one.

… So I said, we're going to stop all negotiations with Canada right now, until they straighten out their act.

Bluff called

Carney’s reaction was initially another example of his cocky, insouciant attitude, as he pretended there was nothing to worry about.

But within 48 hours, the PM was on the mat, again acquiescing to Trump even after his finance minister had categorically rejected abandoning the tax. Just another example of the president’s unique version of realpolitik.

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The winners in the flip-flop are American tech companies and Canadians who have been given a reprieve from another odious piece of Liberal government censorship legislation.

War on bad thoughts

Under former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Canada adopted Bills C-11, the Online Streaming Act, and C-18, the Online News Act, and came very close to passing Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, which would have jailed people for broadcasting “hate speech” and actually contained a thought crimes component that envisioned house arrest for people accused by neighbors of thinking bad thoughts.

Bill C-11 demands that foreign companies produce an acceptable amount of Canadian content on the internet, just as Canada has always demanded similar rules from television, radio, and print media.

Bill C-18 went a step farther and demanded that U.S. social media companies provide an annual stipend to the Canadian government if they post Canadian news content on their platforms. The result has been the death of Canadian news on Meta’s Facebook and Instagram sites because the companies have refused to submit to this extortion.

Storming Fortress Canada

The net effect is to entrench the influence of the mainstream media in Canada, which receives massive subsidies from the federal government; and to weaken independent media, which tends to depend far more on social media exposure.

The DST would have furthered this government control and passive censorship of the internet, because many U.S. companies would probably simply have refused to pay the tax and told the Carney government to move on.

For more than a decade the Liberals have been trying to create some kind of Fortress Canada in which independent and foreign voices have no power to shape the national narrative. It is a dangerous and toxic authoritarian experiment.

Canadians should thank Donald Trump for at least slowing the process down by getting his way on the DST.