Canada

OTTAWA — A former top intelligence adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he fears the U.S. might put intelligence sharing on the table in talks about the state of Canada’s defence spending.

Vincent Rigby said he worries about intelligence being used as a negotiating tool as the Donald Trump White house seeks to extract gains from Canada.

“We hear so much about defense spending and two per cent, and what the U.S. may or may not do if we don’t step up to plate,” Rigby told a crowd at a Canada Global Affairs Institute conference Wednesday afternoon. “I’m afraid at one point, intelligence is going to be used as a negotiating tool.”

Canada is likely regarded as too compromised by foreign powers to be trusted.

Quebec Premier Francois Legault stood at the microphone, his fellow premiers standing behind him at a downtown Washington Hotel, and said the goal is no tariffs with the Americans. Moments later, asked about allowing greater access for American dairy products, Legault was clear: Dairy is non-negotiable for Quebec.

It’s a geopolitical thought experiment to chill our northern blood.

Who would come to Canada’s aid if it were invaded, annexed or otherwise seized by its ally-cum-adversary, the United States of America?

It will never happen, of course.

Trump’s 51st state talk is not a ‘real threat,’ Canada’s defence minister says

Defence Minister Bill Blair says U.S. President Donald Trump’s talk of annexing Canada is not a “real threat,” less than a week after the prime minister was heard telling an economic summit that it should be taken seriously.

The minister is in Brussels to meet with NATO allies and the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, a coalition of countries supporting Ukraine against the Russian invasion. Blair and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a breakfast meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Wednesday morning.

The Online Warriors Calling for a Violent Invasion of Canada

As Canadian sovereignty is undermined and an election approaches, politicians are calling for an investigation of X.

On Feb. 2, a day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed to fight threatened U.S. tariffs on Canadian exports, American right-wing influencer Tim Pool took to X to send a message about relations between the two countries.

“After we destroy their economy their will to resist will erode,” he said in a post that got 2.2 million views.

“We will then march in unopposed and deliver Canada to its rightful place as a territory of the U.S. with no political representation.”

Brought to you by the hysterics at the Tyee.

OTTAWA—U.S. President Donald Trump’s annexation threats should be met with determination to preserve this country’s independence at any cost, says former prime minister Stephen Harper.

Speaking Tuesday in Ottawa at the launch of his latest history book, “Flags of Canada,” Harper welcomed a surge in Canadian nationalism including, he said, from the current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

He forgets that for the past 10 years Trudeau’s government did everything possible to harm Canada and “Old Stock” Canadians along with their media minions and corporate cronies.

Consequently many would seriously consider a union economic or otherwise with the US rather than continue within the slow decline of our racist, genocidal white oppressor nation.

Harpers own record is not stellar. Under his watch the ongoing Temporary foreign worker scandal first blew up.

Islamist immigration was a feature not a bug under Harper’s tenure and Jason Kenney his identity politics front man.

And lets not forget Harper’s promise to defund CBC.

I just can’t get excited about a patriotic movement lead by the same elites who have worked diligently to destroy the beloved Canada we once knew.

Harrumph!

He doesn’t really care much about milk. No, this is all about the North.

This is absolutely the last time I will write anything about Donald Trump. Instead I will just sit back and cheer as this wrecking ball slays sacred cows both to the Left and to the Right. After Trump, the world, and Canada, thankfully, will never be the same.

Canada’s last-minute decision to cooperate with President Trump on border security and efforts to curb fentanyl trafficking was a key factor behind the president’s 25% tariff threat. While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged to strengthen border security, a former US official who led an anti-fentanyl task force under President Trump’s first term has argued that laws in Canada hinder a proper crackdown on the flow of drugs in the US.

… “Definitely there was ties to Chinese organized crime, possibly Iran as well,” he said, adding, “The facts haven’t been released by your government…I think they know they’re sitting on a big scandal here.”

Watch this whole interview segment with David Asher of the Hudson Institute as he schools Rosie
"Well, several months ago, you had the biggest lab in the history of the world taken over by (RCMP) in Vancouver… It made Breaking Bad look like minor league"

"The most of the drugs… pic.twitter.com/MPwqvWRq99

— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) February 9, 2025

And there’s the dilemma we face. We know for a fact that the Liberal government lies about everything, big or small, 24/7.

h/t Mauser, DS, XC