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Carney Goes for Military Buildup As Part of European Rearmament
24 mars 2025
(EIRNS)—Globalist banker and Canada’s acting Prime Minister Mark Carney, who has never been elected to any public office, will likely soon request that the Governor-General call an election as soon as possible. He is nevertheless busy undertaking the reshaping of Canadian policy for years down the road as if he had a mandate. It would seem that his sentiment that climate change is too important to leave to governments, and has to be dictated by central bankers, also applies to Canadian military policy. Under Carney, Canada, which has been long criticized for not spending the 2% of its GDP on defense, that is the standard for all NATO members, is suddenly committed to a military buildup, in a break with the U.S. Over the past months, media and political leaders have manipulated anti-Trump sentiment in Canada, into enmity towards the U.S.A. itself ; to a point where, in a Feb. 14-17 Leger poll, 27% of Canadians identified the U.S. as an enemy nation, and the U.S. National Anthem is booed at hockey games. Others have kept calmer heads. Carney, an alumnus of Harvard, Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg, the Bank for International Settlements, the Global Stabilization Board, and the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, in his March 9 acceptance speech of the Liberal Party’s nomination, pitted “Canadian values” against American ones : “The Americans want our resources, our water, our land, our country. Think about it. If they succeeded, they would destroy our way of life. In America, health care is a big business. In Canada, it is a right. America is a melting pot. Canada is a mosaic…. “In the U.S., differences are not respected or recognized. First Nations are not recognized. And the French language would never have any rights. The joie de vivre, the culture and the French language are part of our identity. We must fully protect that. We must promote that as well. We will never give them up for any trade agreement…. “America is not Canada, and Canada never, ever will be part of America in any way, shape or form.” Carney took a trip to Europe on March 17, where he met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, and talked to EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, about European rearmament. 1. Carney has asked for a review of the contract to buy 88 U.S. made F35 fighter jets, and is considering cancelling the order for all but 16, and manufacturing Swedish made Saab Gripen jets in Canada instead. 2. Carney and Macron, launched a new bilateral intelligence sharing arrangement—as the Trump administration considers ditching Canada as a “Five Eyes” network partner. Carney also discussed defense contracts with Starmer. 3. On March 18, Carney announced a $6 billion contract to buy an Arctic Radar missile defense program from Australia. 4. The “White Paper for European Defence—Readiness 2030,” issued by Kaja Kallas’ European External Action Service (the EU’s diplomacy agency), cites an one-paragraph intention to collaborate with Canada : “Our co-operation with Canada has intensified and should be further enhanced, also to strengthen transatlantic security. The bilateral Security and Defence dialogue as well as the upcoming Security and Defence partnership provide the basis for enhanced security and defence co-operation, including on respective initiatives to boost defence industry production.” Tectonic realignments are in play, and it makes for strange bedfellows. The social democratic NDP has endorsed the idea of building the Saab Gripen fighter jets, while the United Conservative Party’s Danielle Smith, as Premier of Alberta province is taking a non-confrontational approach to President Trump. The province passed an Albertan Sovereignty Act in 2022 and has taken measures to withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan. Meanwhile Ontario’s populist Premier, Progressive Conservative Rob Ford has aggressively banned American alcohol products, and is threatening to cut off electricity exports to Michigan, Minnesota, and New York State. When Ford’s federal counterpart, Progressive Conservative Pierre Poilievre asked him for help in the federal campaign, Ford replied that he was too busy, and gave a glowing endorsement to Carney. Poilievre is being vilified as a sellout to Trump. Normal polling procedures might not apply here. [fh] |