Canada Chooses Climate Change, Censorship, and China

The U.S.-Canada Trade War takes off.

J.B. Shurk | August 24, 2026

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.  

The British Empire’s “climate change”-obsessed central banker announced the official start of the U.S.-Canada Trade War on his X account.  That’s ironic because the Canadian government considers Elon Musk an enemy, restricts what information Canadian citizens can see on social media platforms, and seeks to tax and regulate all online communication.  Because of the Canadian government’s censorship/propaganda machine, most Canadian citizens have no idea how economically vulnerable their British vassal state really is.  Carney’s public memorandum makes it sound as if Canada’s economy is the envy of the world, when it is nothing more than a plaything for Chinese smugglers and European bankers who use the country as an entry point into U.S. markets.  The average Canadian is about to learn how dependent Canada has always been upon the unreciprocated generosity of the United States. 

Canada is a weigh station for moving products into the United States.  Its value for other nations lies in its uniquely favorable trade agreements with the U.S.  Canadian banks and manufacturers act as middlemen for foreign nations skirting American trade laws.  For its trade- and money-laundering services, Canada receives a cut of the profits.  China takes advantage of this arrangement by “snow-washing” their goods through Canadian shell corporations and hiding their commercial transactions within Canadian financial institutions.  Over the decades, this “Trojan horse” operation — in which American adversaries use Canada as an economic workaround for hollowing out vital American industries — has greatly profited our neighbors up North.  

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