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As reported in the Jihad Watch story Friday morning, “Trump withdraws invitation for Canadian Prime Minister Carney to join his Gaza ‘Board of Peace,’” Carney was dumped because he called for a diplomatic revolt against America to serve his own Marxist, globalist agenda. Carney called upon “like-minded middle powers” to “band together to push their priorities on the world stage,” specifically against the US for “weaponizing” economics. Before he arrived in Davos, Carney was likely emboldened to antagonize Trump by a trip he made to China, where he degraded himself and wrapped up deals with the communist regime. According to a report in the National Post, Carney “identified the key to dealing with the Chinese Communists on a level playing field: give them everything they want, and more.”
Carney was extraordinarily short-sighted not to realize the extent of threat China poses to America, which would prompt Trump to immediately retaliate. “Trump calls Carney ‘governor’ and threatens 100% tariffs,” CTV News, January 24, 2026:
U.S. President Donald Trump revived one of his most pointed insults toward Canada on Saturday, calling Prime Minister Mark Carney “governor” and threatening to slam the country with a 100 per cent tariff over its growing ties with China.
Here’s how government officials reacted to Trump’s comments.
Trump brings back ‘governor’ taunt
The remark revives a familiar taunt Trump previously used against the former prime minister Justin Trudeau and comes as relations between Ottawa and Washington continue to deteriorate….
During Carney’s recent trip to Beijing last week, the two countries announced a trade deal exchanging reduced tariffs and quotas for Chinese electric vehicles in Canada for the lifting of China’s tariffs on Canadian agricultural products….
Carney’s plans are more fully revealed on the Prime Minister of Canada website. An excerpt:
As the world’s second-largest economy, China presents enormous opportunities for Canada in this mission.
To forge a new Canada-China partnership, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, visited Beijing, the People’s Republic of China, this week. This marked the first visit to China by a Canadian Prime Minister since 2017. In Beijing, Prime Minister Carney met with the President of China, Xi Jinping, the Premier of China, Li Qiang, and the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China, Zhao Leji. After their meeting, Prime Minister Carney and President Xi released a joint statement outlining the pillars of Canada and China’s new strategic partnership.
Central to this new partnership is an agreement to collaborate in energy, clean technology, and climate competitiveness….
Carney was met with an unexpected message from Trump:
Even Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who has vehemently opposed Trump’s tariffs, called for a Chinese EV boycott in Canada after Carney’s deal with Xi Jinping, which requires Canada to drop its 100 percent tariffs on Chinese EVs “and allow an annual import quota of up to 49,000 of the vehicles in exchange for China reducing its canola tariffs.”
Carney backpedaled on a full deal, which will be discussed further on, making his Davos speech a short-lived showdown between Canada and the US, at least for the time being.
The Liberal government’s alliance with China started decades ago. See more HERE for background; Frank Gaffney and I discussed the Canada-China connection. We addressed China’s infiltration of Canada in the public and private sectors (with emphasis on Canada’s 2019 and 2021 Chinese election interference), and Justin Trudeau’s connections with China.
Last year, Joe Rogan expressed his views about Canada vis-a-vis China, during the tenure of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. In this short clip, Rogan issued a dire warning about the real threat of “communism” in Canada (language warning):
Joe Rogan doesn’t hold back, and tells everyone how he really feels about Justin Trudeau.
His guest is surprised, because Joe is usually quite polite.
Trudeau gets under everyone’s skin.pic.twitter.com/zlVrpEyO1J
— Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker (@Martyupnorth) January 18, 2025
In 2021, Peter Foster, a Cambridge-educated economist and former senior editor of the Financial Post, wrote this in his article “Mark Carney, man of destiny, wants to revolutionize society. It won’t be pleasant”:
“Carney’s plan is to control the global economy by seizing the commanding heights of finance, not by nationalization but by exerting non-democratic pressure to divest from, and stop funding, fossil fuels. The private sector is to become a partner in imposing its own bondage. This will be do-it-yourself totalitarianism.”
Years later, it indeed isn’t pleasant, as Carney’s self-serving agenda threatens to drag Canada down.
Adding to Foster’s warning was former British Prime Minister Liz Truss:
In response to Trump’s 100% tariff threat, Carney tried to deflect the impact on Canada. He warned that “the impact of American tariffs will be on American affordability, not Canadian affordability,” since American companies are the ones who will end up paying the cost for tariffed Canadian goods. Although true, American companies will seek out alternatives to high costs (as is normal in a free market), thus squeezing Canadian companies into further possible layoffs. Canada is already suffering, as the job market reported its worst loss of 2025 this past summer, when unemployment hit 7.1%. According to CTV News, companies cited U.S. tariffs, and now Trump is threatening much worse in the face of Carney’s cozying up to China.
But Carney made a sudden U-turn, saying that Canada has “no intention” of pursuing a free trade agreement with China, and that Canada respects its commitment to the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement, which requires the three countries to “notify the others ahead of time if they want to pursue a free trade agreement with a non-market country — like China.” This attracted the attention of US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who pointed out that Carney’s “about-face” after striking a deal with China was connected to Trump’s threat of 100% tariffs against Canada. Bessent stated:
“The Canadians, a few months ago, joined the U.S. in putting high steel tariffs on China because the Chinese are dumping….The Europeans also have done the same thing. And it looks like that Prime Minister Carney may have done some kind of about-face.”
Canada’s minister responsible for US-Canada Trade, Dominic LeBlanc, issued a statement on X:
Statement from the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, President of the King’s Privy Council for Canada and Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, Intergovernmental Affairs, Internal Trade and One Canadian Economy:
“As the Prime Minister said this week, Canada and the United States…
— Dominic LeBlanc (@DLeBlancNB) January 24, 2026
Carney’s previous plan to answer questions to the media the day after his speech in Davos was abruptly cancelled, citing a “scheduling issue.”
Meanwhile, as Carney has backpedaled for now, his globalist, elitist agenda is clear, and its implications are worrying for Canada’s economy, as well as for its freedoms and self-reliance. Although he parades self-reliance as a reason to distance Canada from its US neighbor, Carney should not consider China to be an acceptable alternative. Yet China as trade partner has been the Liberals’ goal during the tenures of Pierre Trudeau, Justin Trudeau, and now Mark Carney, and it won’t vanish because of Trump’s opposition. At best, it will go temporarily dormant.
