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Canada ERUPTS As Carney's Anti-American Plan BACKFIRES BADLY!Added:
The days of our military sending 70-cents of every dollars to the United States are over.
Uh today we want to respond to Mark Carney's announcements that uh Canada's hit the NATO 2% spending target. But that doesn't mean that Canada's any stronger.
>> [cheering] [applause] >> The prairies at harvest where the sky goes on forever.
>> [cheering] [applause] >> You know, Canada's tourism sector had a record-breaking summer. 50,000 more train rides, 13% more visits to our national parks, 15% more visits to our national museums.
>> [cheering] [applause] >> Small small individual acts of solidarity but repeated millions of time.
And together they make a statement.
We are the masters of our destiny.
>> [applause] [applause] [cheering] >> The United States is done playing nice and it comes down to one man, Mark Carney. He walked into global forums acting like Canada could challenge American power while simultaneously depending on American markets for 73% of its exports.
He turned diplomacy into confrontation and tried to sell it to Canadians as bold leadership but there is a serious miscalculation sitting right at the center of all of this and it is starting to show up in ways that Carney cannot spin his way out of. The US is not just frustrated with Canada right now. They are specifically and personally frustrated with Mark Carney and that distinction matters more than most people are realizing. Mark Carney and the Liberals have crossed a line and I think the blowback is going to be pretty severe. One of the White House trade advisor said that Mark Carney specifically. So, let us get this completely straight. Mark Carney stands up on the global stage and starts pushing this idea that countries need to organize and unite against the United States. He talks about tariffs and supply chains and American economic influence like he is uh leading some kind of grand resistance movement uh at an international summit somewhere.
And he is doing all of this while Canada sends roughly 73% of everything it exports straight into the American economy. You are dependent on the very system you are publicly trying to undermine. That is not bold foreign policy leadership. That is reckless and there is a price tag attached to it that Canadians are going to be paying for a long time.
>> [applause and cheering] >> The prairies at harvest where the sky goes on forever. And US officials are not even bothering to be subtle about this anymore. They are not saying Canada is a concern in the general diplomatic sense. They are saying Mark Carney specifically is the problem. That is personal. That means his individual behavior and his specific choices have crossed a threshold where Washington no longer sees this as normal friction between trading partners. They see a leader who is actively attempting to build alliances against them on the world stage while still walking in through the front door of their market every single day to cash in. Mr. Carney, you absolutely cannot play both of those games simultaneously and expect zero consequences to follow. Especially now that Mark Carney has been caught lying about his NATO spending seems like he might be getting a little creative with the numbers. Now let us move to the NATO situation because this is where things go from embarrassing to genuinely alarming. Carney is out here celebrating that Canada's finally hit the 2% defense spending target as if it is some kind of historic national achievement worth throwing a parade over. And it sounds impressive right up until you remember that this commitment was made in 2014.
That is 12 years ago. 12 years to meet a commitment that every other serious NATO member treated as a baseline. And even now with the numbers being celebrated military analysts are questioning whether the money actually went where it was supposed to go because the military itself does not appear to be getting any stronger. 10 billion dollars added on paper, zero visible improvement in actual capability. So, what exactly are we celebrating? Small small individual acts of solidarity but repeated millions of time.
And together they make a statement.
We are the masters of our destiny.
>> [applause] [applause] [cheering] >> And the contradiction Carney is creating here gets harder to ignore the more closely you look at it. On one hand he wants to position Canada as this powerful independent nation capable of standing up to American pressure and charting its own course. On the other hand, Canada's entire economic architecture is wired into the United States. America is Canada's largest investor, its largest customer, its largest trading partner by a margin that dwarfs every other relationship Canada has. You cannot replace that overnight with a speech at Davos. You cannot swap out geography and decades of integrated economic infrastructure because of some grand anti-American positioning you decided to run in an election campaign.
But Carney is acting like a few global meetings and some applause lines at international forums are somehow going to change the fundamental economic reality of what Canada is and where its money comes from. Canada spends 2% of GDP or say Latvia spends 2% of GDP, it's going to give you very different effects and of course Latvia is spending 5% of GDP um but at least sort of it brings everybody Look, you know, if they spend different amounts it's going to have different effects of course but they are spending way more than us.
And the irony of all of this is almost too much to take seriously. Carney is pushing this anti-American posture on the world stage. He is positioning himself as the leader of some alternative alliance to push back against Washington and yet Canada's entire real-world defense capability still depends fundamentally on the United States. For years the US has been the actual security backbone of Canada.
That is an uncomfortable truth for some people but it is the truth. You cannot weaken your own military for the better part of two decades and then suddenly stand up and announce that you are strategically independent. That is not a military strategy. That is campaign theater. And the world's most powerful military alliance is watching and taking notes.
NATO says Canada finally met a key commitment by spending roughly 2% of its GDP on defense in the last fiscal year, a goal set back in 2014. Military experts are openly saying Canada is roughly 15 years behind where it actually needs to be right now in terms of genuine defense capability. Only about 50% of military equipment is even serviceable. Not deployable.
Serviceable. That means half the gear barely functions at a basic operational level. Fighter jets delayed, submarines delayed, tanks delayed, naval upgrade programs delayed. Everything's stuck and Carney stands up at a microphone and treats hitting the absolute bare minimum requirement after more than a decade of falling short as though it is some landmark moment in Canadian military history. The gap between the announcement and the reality on the ground is not small. It is staggering.
really dire. In addition, there were some other global politicians who trying to work with Mark Carney might have blown back on them as well. Seems like they might be losing their career. Mark Carney couldn't stop there. He had to try and say Canada's doing better than the US yet again and that's the only way Canada can win of course. Now let us move from the military picture over to energy because this is where the real damage to Canada's future is accumulating. Canada right now is sitting on one of the most significant energy opportunities in the world. Asia is desperate for supply. Europe is still scrambling for alternatives after years of instability. There are projects currently on the table that could attract 33 billion dollars in private investment right off the starting line.
33 billion dollars that could trigger genuine economic transformation and position Canada as a dominant global energy supplier for decades. So, what does Mark Carney do when handed that kind of opportunity? Watch what comes next. In addition, there were some other global politicians who trying to work with Mark Carney might have blown back on them as well. Seems like they might be losing their career. Mark Carney couldn't stop there. He had to try and say Canada's doing better than the US yet again and that's the only way win of course. He turns it into announcements about announcements. Agreements to maybe agree on a framework to potentially do something at some point in the future.
You sit through these press conferences and nothing tangible is actually moving forward. LNG Canada expansion was already in motion years before Carney ever stepped into the picture. Coastal gas link was already underway. These projects existed and were being built long before he arrived and yet he shows up and does exactly what career politicians always do. He starts claiming credit as though he personally drove a shovel into the ground on day one. Props for the political skill, but Mr. Carney, why are you out collecting credit for things that started without you instead of actually finishing them and building the next ones? Many would argue that Canada has actually lined lagged behind NATO's 2% target for years. Something that they've actually faced criticism for from allies. First off, why did it take the country a little bit longer and what image has it kind of given Canada?
Yeah, I mean it's come at serious reputational cost, right? That Canada was always, you know, I think of NATO as like a six-packs at the beer store. And investors are watching every single bit of this play out in real time. They see the delays, they see the regulatory chaos, they see land claim disputes that drag on for years without resolution.
They see every major project turn into a lengthy political negotiation before a single permit gets issued. And what do they do? They pull back because no serious investor with billions of dollars at stake is going to keep that money parked in a country where every project is a political gamble with an uncertain timeline. This is not a resource shortage problem. Canada has more than enough resources to be a dominant global supplier. This is a leadership problem, pure and simple. And the cost of that leadership problem is being measured in missed opportunities that go to faster moving competitors every single quarter. And Canada was always a very like well like flavor and Canada increasingly got excluded uh from key decisions and key sort of meetings uh because we didn't have capabilities and if you don't have capabilities then you can't make commitments. That's a great global reputation to have. Like just leave Canada out of it. They're the gross beer that we don't want to deal with. And then the global energy crisis hits.
And this is where everything Carney is doing starts to look less like incompetence and more like deliberate misdirection.
Experts are calling this the worst energy shortage situation in decades.
Australia right now has over 500 gas stations running completely dry.
Countries across the globe are scrambling for supply. Canada has the resources. Canada has the geographic advantage. Canada has buyers lining up and waiting. So why is none of that supply actually flowing the way it should? Because Carney's government is piling on new layers of emissions frameworks, regulatory hurdles, and carbon policy restrictions that do two things simultaneously.
They make production slower and they make it more expensive. So at the exact moment the world needs more supply, Canada is slowing down output. While other countries are racing to secure market share, Canada is debating paperwork. We are pretending like the US is the threat to the sovereignty that we need to really stand up and protect ourselves. And here the military specialists are saying we're 15 years behind having any sort of meaningful military. And here is where the whole picture starts to tie itself together in a way that is hard to look away from.
Carney loves to talk about progress. He makes lists. He references projects. He cites agreements. He names plans. He has a remarkable talent for generating the appearance of momentum, but when you actually break those lists down item by item, most of the things on them started before he arrived. Many are still nowhere near completion and the ones that could move quickly are tangled up in regulatory loops that show no signs of resolving. So Mr. Carney, let us go beyond the list. Where is the actual finished output? Where is the measurable growth? Because once you stop following the words and start following the money, the direction of everything this government is doing starts to make a very different kind of sense. Massive pushes into renewable energy, wind farms, solar installations, billions flowing into green projects, and you sit there asking yourself one very simple question. Who is actually benefiting from all of this? Because it is clearly not the average Canadian paying higher costs at every turn. Thanks America for having an army so Canada can pretend that we have one when we don't. And that's why this was also very funny because they were finding out that hmm, maybe this NATO spending was a little bit uh you know, creative with the accounting what they've actually been spending on especially because it actually didn't have any impact to the actual capacity of the operations and what we can do in Canada. Look at the network surrounding Carney directly.
Brookfield, CDPQ, major institutional players with deep financial ties to renewable energy deals worth billions of dollars. And then you look at who is inside Carney's own inner circle and you start noticing that several of those people have direct personal connections to those exact same funds and investment vehicles. His chief of staff is directly tied to CDPQ and is still collecting deferred compensation in the range of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
So when government policy pushes billions of dollars toward the exact sectors where these connected players have financial stakes, you have to ask the obvious question. Are these policies being designed for the benefit of ordinary Canadians or are they being designed for the benefit of the specific people who are in the room when the decisions get made? Because right now oil and gas gets buried under regulations and delays and emissions frameworks while the renewable sector gets a clear government-backed runway with billions in support. That is not balanced. That is a directed outcome.
Unserviceable, only 50% of the Canadian Armed Forces equipment is deployable and we know Thank you again, America.
And once again, I say this all the time.
If you do serve in the Armed Forces, thank you for doing that. I do appreciate it and I understand that it's not the people, it's not the soldiers who are the issues. If you only have 50% of serviceable equipment, that's not even the equipment that could actually like launch [laughter] and operate. Now let us bring in the investor perspective because this is where the consequences stop being theoretical and start showing up in real numbers. The CEO of Enbridge has been openly saying the situation is unstable. They have customers ready.
They have capital lined up. They have infrastructure expansion plans sitting on the table. But they cannot move forward because the rules keep changing, approvals remain uncertain, and every major project has become a political gamble with no predictable timeline.
They have already absorbed roughly $600 million in losses on one failed project alone.
Not because the resource was not there.
Not because the demand dried up, but because the environment became too unpredictable to operate in. And investors simply do not play the unpredictability game.
They do not put billions of dollars at risk over vague speeches and framework announcements. They need clarity. They need consistency. Carney's Canada is offering neither. So investors pack up and move their money south where rules are clear, approvals actually happen, and timelines are real. Also, with this corruption on full display, he is handing out even more projects to his insiders while denying projects that would build our relationship with the United States.
And this is against all of the And now America responds.
Because this whole situation is not happening in a vacuum. Canada cannot take repeated public shots at its largest economic partner on the world stage and expect Washington to just absorb it quietly and keep smiling.
Tariffs are already in play. Economic pressure is already being applied. There are serious discussions happening right now about reshaping the entire trade relationship under USMCA.
Threats of extreme measures like 100% tariffs are being floated. If Canada keeps leaning toward China, which Washington sees as its primary economic rival. And from the American perspective, the read on Carney is straightforward. They see a leader trying to build alliances outside of the American system while still depending completely on American market access.
They see him refusing to align on major geopolitical issues while cashing in on American trade every single day. They see relentless anti-American positioning at international forums. And the question they are asking has become very simple and very direct. Are you an ally or are you positioning yourself as a competitor? Because Mr. Carney, you absolutely cannot be both at the same time.
>> So this is very important at a time of course when our sovereignty is under duress because being part of these key decisions is a way of asserting our interests, not just our defense interests, but our political and our economic interests. And it's leveraging our European partners to counterbalance the vagaries of US unilateralism so that >> Of course, the NATO spending is just looped back to being anti-American spending. And when the United States starts asking that question seriously, it changes everything on the ground because Canada does not have the leverage to win that kind of standoff with America. The US economy is dramatically larger. The US military is overwhelmingly stronger. The American domestic market dwarfs Canada's. And Canada depends on access to the American system far more than the other way around. So, when pressure builds in this relationship, it does not hit both sides equally. It hits Canada harder. That is just the mathematical reality of the situation. And Carney walks straight into it believing he could outmaneuver the most powerful economy on Earth with speeches and international forum positioning. Back home in Canada, the gap between what Carney says at podiums and what ordinary people are actually living through gets wider every single week. He talks about job growth and wage increases and affordability improving.
Regular Canadians look around at their grocery bills and their rent and their gas prices and wonder who exactly those numbers are describing.
America's reaction to all of this is not random. It is not an overreaction. It is a calculated response to a country that appears to be shifting its alignment.
And when that shift becomes clear to Washington, America adjusts fast.
Canada's finding out exactly what that adjustment feels like right now.
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