OTTAWA — Canadian universities have participated in Qatar-backed research projects in scientific fields Canada classifies as sensitive, and coordinated campaigns sought to make causes including Gaza a decisive issue in the 2025 federal election, while broader Muslim voter-mobilization efforts target up to 80 ridings, according to a new report alleging that Canadian institutions have become unusually susceptible to Islamist influence.
I don’t blame them. I blame our political class.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney appointed a long-time Democrat political operative to a newly-created senior position in his government, the latest action in a long history between prominent Democrats colluding with the country’s leader to oppose the Trump administration. The two countries are now embroiled in a tense back-and-forth years in the making that threatens American interests on trade and national security.
LÉVIS – Prime Minister Mark Carney said the federal government will pour $11.3 billion into Quebec’s shipbuilding industry to build six new icebreakers for the Canadian Coast Guard.
Carney called it the “largest” shipbuilding contract in the province’s history.
The new ships will replace the coast guard’s aging heavy and medium icebreakers, fulfilling a promise made in 2019.
Central banker Mark Carney is doing that peculiar Canadian thing again — acting tough while exuding weakness. Just before midnight on Friday, the former governor of the Bank of England and King Charles III’s current prime minister in North America announced that trade talks with the United States had collapsed. This was expected, even though the Canadian and American trade delegations had publicly expressed optimism on Wednesday that a mutually beneficial framework for future trade relations was within reach.
Carney "“There is a mutually beneficial deal possible here, but it has to be one that respects Canada’s sovereignty, that respects our independence, that uses our complementary strengths to build something better, not tear apart for short term gain. That’s the offer.”… pic.twitter.com/2GOrJHOcEk
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) August 24, 2026
Politicians are arguing, pointing fingers and laying blame, but regular Canadians are about to feel pain.
As a new wave of tariffs hits Canadian industries, workers in plants across the country will start losing their jobs.
Some might be told as early as today that production is shutting down, that the tariffs make it impossible to continue or sustain current levels of production.
Canadian businesses and industry leaders are bracing for the full effects of fresh 50 per cent U.S. tariffs, crossing their fingers that domestic support will come quickly.
Prime Minister Mark Carney called his negotiating team back to Ottawa on Friday night after trade talks fell apart in the 11th hour because of what he said were “unreasonable” requests from the U.S.
Negotiators are no longer at the bargaining table, so U.S. President Donald Trump’s threatened 50 per cent tariffs are in force, covering a range of Canadian products, from wood furniture and cement to plywood and wine.
Business and Industry leaders? They didn’t object to the grievous harm caused Canadians by swamping us with TFW’s, Foreign Students, Family Reunification, and whatever other Mass Immigration scam they and the Liberals could dream up. Mass immigration is corporate welfare. I will not shed a tear for them. They didn’t for us.
I do care very deeply for those who will continue to suffer at the hands of the Carney government and the Corporate Welfare class.
I will never trust a word from the “Business Community” again.
WATCH: Five THOUSAND teens showed up for job fair in Canada
… but the jobs go to 40 year old immigrant men because business owners can charge $40k for the LMIA
and the employee gets citizenship benefits. You can’t compete against those incentives. pic.twitter.com/Oo6nyvbIo9
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) April 12, 2026
China’s nationalist tabloid Global Times praised Canada’s retaliation against US tariffs, casting Ottawa’s move as validating Beijing’s opposition to Washington’s protectionist trade policies.
Calling Canada’s action “Chinese-style counterattack,” the newspaper said in an editorial Monday that the government’s decision shows that “more countries are realizing that concessions toward the US do not necessarily bring respect and stability.”
Carney does not want a deal, not with the US, unless China says so.
Oh look who’s back!
Canadians angry because U.S. trade approached cultural sovereignty issues. Canada then vows to influence American opinion.
Think about it. Let me know when you see it. https://t.co/ttQ19FA6Ao
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) August 23, 2026
Canada’s trade negotiations with the United States have failed. Washington has imposed 50% tariffs on approximately $28 billion worth of Canadian products, and Prime Minister Mark Carney has promised a dollar-for-dollar response beginning Sept. 8.
Retaliation may be politically inevitable. But Ottawa must proceed very carefully. In attempting to punish Washington, Canada could easily end up punishing Canadian families at the grocery store.
Tariffs are taxes. Full stop.
Jaw-jaw is better than war-war , said Winston Churchill, who was well-versed in both. Of course, Churchill never jaw-jawed with Donald Trump, notorious bad-faith bargainer.
Near the end of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s news conference Saturday the National Post’s Christopher Nardi asked whether we were now in a trade war with the United States. “We were attacked,” Carney answered, “You’re at war when you get attacked. We got attacked.” So we are “at war” with by far our most important trading partner. It was a candid offhand remark that provided the lead to many news reports of Carney’s comments and is bound to have been noted in the White House. Firm action is good. Not signing a bad deal is good. Taunting a hair-trigger megalomaniac isn’t.
Is this going to lead to a fall election?
With emotions running high over trade issues few people fully understand, it will be some time — if ever — before we can have a straightforward discussion about how negotiations with America fell apart.
Abdul El-Sayed wants to be elected this fall as the next U.S. Senator for Michigan.
On Saturday, the Democratic candidate accused his Republican opponent of blindly supporting U.S. President Donald Trump and his new 50 per cent tariffs on Canada, which he said would cost Michigan families thousands of dollars a year.
“He’s a sock puppet who will do whatever Trump wants,” El-Sayed tweeted of Mike Rogers, a former FBI special agent, “no matter what it costs you.”
Abdul El-Sayed to Speak at Conference Calling for Muslim Takeover of U.S.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy fired back at Canada on live television Sunday morning after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced “dollar-for-dollar” retaliatory tariffs in response to the new 50% U.S. tariffs.
Speaking on Fox News Sunday, Duffy said it was “foolish” for Canada to start a trade war with the United States, in part, because America’s northern neighbor “doesn’t have a military.” Canada does have a military, though it is much smaller than the U.S. military.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Canada:
Canada is a country that doesn't have a military.
To think that they're gonna go to war with Donald Trump and actually win that war with the US, I think it's foolish on their part.pic.twitter.com/sEYqmao6rh
— Clash Report (@clashreport) August 23, 2026
After a week of manufactured drama and unnecessary strain, Prime Minister Mark Carney emerged on Saturday morning to explain “why we’re walking away from a bad deal — and what comes next.”
“For over a year, Canada has worked intensively and in good faith with the United States to negotiate a new, comprehensive trade deal,” Carney said. “We’ve been pragmatic, patient and persistent.”
Apparently that was not sufficient. In a statement released 20 minutes to midnight on Friday night, Carney said that “last-minute changes” in the terms proposed by American negotiators were “unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal.”
Curious Carney play: He frames US demands for alignment on tariffs with third countries (steel, aluminum, derivatives) and any language restricting Canada’s ability to cut independent trade deals as a novel “power play” that tramples sovereignty—something “Canadians wouldn’t… pic.twitter.com/S4CLjLtslf
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) August 22, 2026
He is a ChiCom asset.
For a decade, the federal Liberal government allowed one of the most damaging misconceptions in Canadian economic policy to take root: that indigenous consultation means indigenous consent and that consent effectively means a veto over major projects. That was never the law, but Justin Trudeau’s Liberals behaved and spoke in ways that allowed Canadians, investors, and indigenous communities to wonder whether it was.
