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Russia Hoaxers Quiet About Canadian Election Interference
by Tyler Durden
Monday, Aug 31, 2026 - 10:35 PM
Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker,
As President Trump has repeatedly
pointed out,
the Canadian government embraces a peculiar notion of national sovereignty: It depends upon the U.S. military for security and expects to sell its domestic products to Americans as if Canada were just another U.S. state. At the same time, it insists on censoring American sources of news, restricting the flow of American goods into Canada, and rebuking American foreign policy decisions.
When former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau flew to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President Trump following his 2024 re-election, the Canadian leader's foremost concern was to prevent the new Trump administration from seeking fair and reciprocal trade (
actual free trade) between the two countries - a goal that the president and his economic team had pursued during Trump's first term and which ultimately resulted in the replacement of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). From Trump's point of view, USMCA did not resolve decades-long trade imbalances between Canada and the United States, but it did kill NAFTA and put the U.S. in a legal position to recalibrate its economic relationship with Canada by 2026. Trudeau and the Canadians needed for the old system to endure, and he told Trump that Canada could not economically survive if Canada were forced to remove its own trade barriers against the U.S. This is when Trump suggested to Trudeau that if Canada cannot exist without American welfare, then it is operating as a
de facto American state.
Trump's unvarnished truth-telling created an international brouhaha. Never one for pretending or backing down, the president spent the next several months advising Canada to make its dependence upon the American Union official by becoming the fifty-first state. Canadians from British Columbia to Newfoundland took great offense, and the Canadian Establishment used the issue as a catalyst for installing central banker Mark Carney as prime minister, under the rationale that the former governor of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England was the ideal candidate for taking on President Trump.
Since his premiership began, Carney has been on a mission to ruffle Trump's feathers and cause friction between Canada and the U.S. He has worked to strengthen Canada's economic bonds with communist China. He has repeatedly described Canada as an extension of Old Europe, rather than part of the New World. He has promised to "defend" Greenland from any American attempts to assert dominion over the island. He has pledged additional Canadian support for Ukraine in a war against Russia that President Trump wishes to end. He has used every
public speech to insult the United States as an unreliable and dangerous nation that cannot be trusted. He has declared Canada to be in an economic "war" with the U.S. and has encouraged Canadian citizens to be obnoxiously hostile toward Americans.
These provocative stances and statements might make sense if Canada were not so economically and militarily dependent upon the United States.
If Carney wishes to strengthen communist China at America's expense, he cannot expect the U.S. to give Canada the most favorable trade terms of any nation in the world. Nor can he expect America to protect Canada as an ally if Canada allies itself with America's principal geopolitical foe. If Carney wishes to fight Americans so that the Kingdom of Denmark can continue to lay claim to a North American territory whose 56,000 residents are nearly all Inuit, then he should not expect the U.S. military to defend Canada from invasion. Furthermore, Carney should not expect the U.S. to protect Canada under a Golden Dome missile defense system for North America that depends upon having operational control of Greenland. He certainly shouldn't expect American taxpayers to foot the bill for Canada's national security when Canada is working to provoke a direct U.S.-Russia conflict over Ukraine. He also shouldn't expect preferential treatment from the United States when he undermines American strategic objectives around the world.
Canada's flamboyant pomposity is obscene.
Canada's Hillary Clinton, Chrystia Freeland, was the trade negotiator who tried to keep Canada's one-way tariffs intact during President Trump's first term. She's currently serving as an unpaid "infrastructure reconstruction" advisor (or what some might call, "the CEO of wartime money-laundering in Europe") to Ukraine's holdover-president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. She popped her head up from Ukraine's funny money operations last week to denounce the United States for treating Canada as a "vassal state."
Since Canada is not economically or militarily viable without enormous welfare assistance from the U.S., Canada is a vassal state; pretending otherwise is absurd.
But here's the thing: Central banker Mark Carney and the Canadian Establishment have chosen to fight back against President Trump's efforts for reciprocal trade by binding Canada to
communist China, the United Kingdom, and the European Union. Carney can't beg for help from General Secretary Xi Jinping, King Charles III, and Queen Ursula von der Leyen without making Canada a vassal state of communist China and
Old Europe.
Canada is not a "middle power" because it has no power. It has squandered its natural resources and economic wealth by pursuing foolish "climate change" policies that have no effect on the weather. Sovereign nations capable of militarily defending themselves do not indulge costly, "woke" delusions. Only vassal states commit economic suicide while puffing out their chests and acting tough. Why? Because real nation states stand behind and take care of them.
It is also fascinating how Chrystia Freeland publicly argues that the best way to fight back against the Trump administration is to assist Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections. Calling it the "Donut Strategy," Freeland says that the Canadian government must go around the White House and manipulate the American people. Canada's minister of industry, Mélanie Joly, is doing exactly that by
strategizing with prominent Democrats around the country on the best ways to undermine President Trump's trade policies. Ontario Premier Doug Ford not only
pledged to interfere in the U.S. midterm elections but also told Trump to "kiss his ass." Central banker Mark Carney and his globalist friends are coordinating an
information war against American voters. In other words, all the Canadians who whine about President Trump not respecting Canadian sovereignty have absolutely no respect for American sovereignty.
Prominent members of the Canadian government nonchalantly admit to
interfering in American elections, and corporate news talking heads just nod and smile. Do you remember when news media spent years lecturing Americans about "foreign election interference" after Trump clobbered Hillary in the 2016 election? All we heard during the president's first term was, "Russia, Russia, Russia!" Now Canadian officials admit to manipulating American voters in past elections and promise to do so again this year, and not a single pundit is even whispering, "Canada, Canada, Canada." After Hillary Clinton's campaign and Barack Obama's intelligence agencies used the Russian Collusion Hoax to perpetrate a fraud against the American people, Democrats collude openly with the Canadian government to manipulate elections. Do you think that "foreign election interference" might have been just
another propaganda press talking point to advance
another anti-Trump narrative?
Along with Canada, the United Kingdom seems to play a central role in sabotaging Trump's government. It was MI6 spy Christopher Steele who put together Hillary's fake dossier on Donald Trump that triggered Robert Mueller's two-year special counsel investigation into the president. Later, British "Russia expert" Fiona Hill
testified against the president when Democrats (and Mitt Romney) turned a Biden Family corruption scandal involving Ukraine into a Trump impeachment. During her testimony, Hill insisted that Russia "meddled" in the 2016 election. Now King Charles III's North American prime minister, Mark Carney, is openly
meddling in the 2026 midterms. Will Chris Steele and Fiona Hill return to testify about Canada's election interference? Let's not hold our breath.
