{"id":35136,"date":"2026-10-31T09:11:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T13:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/?p=35136"},"modified":"2026-10-31T09:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T13:11:53","slug":"canada-is-at-war-with-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/canada-is-at-war-with-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada is at War with the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"TrumpM<\/span>ake no mistake: Canada is at war with the USA, and our government tacitly acknowledged that last week.<\/strong> It might not be bullets and bombs, but right now Canada is under a staggering barrage of USian insults, lies, broken promises and contracts, illegal actions, tariffs, disinformation, and outright threats from the US dictator, his administration, and his MAGA supporters and influencers. The attack is as disingenuous and vicious as anything Putin has thrown at Ukraine. Not surprising, considering how Donald Trump has shown himself to be a close friend to Putin. He is very likely a Russian asset because he is helping achieve Putin’s goal of destabilizing Western democracies.<\/p>\n

Canada has been accused of political interference in US politics<\/a>, risibly by the very USian people who deliberately interfered in Canadian politics and supported the treasonous Alberta separatists, and funded the insurrectionist convoy. Astute political watchers know this is just one of many lies Trump will use to deny any midterm elections that don’t favour his MAGA candidates. But saying Trump lies is a truism, like saying water is wet.<\/p>\n

Canada has been attacked economically and socially by Trump through tariffs, accusations, and anti-Canadian policies. Canada has even been threatened with invasion<\/a> by him and his sycophant Lutnick. The “51st state” rhetoric Trump has frequently stated was not a joke: it remains Trump’s policy. All Canadians need to take it seriously.*<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Trump's<\/a>Of course, Canada is not alone in being attacked or at war with the USA<\/a>. Trump has aligned himself with several dictators, especially Putin and Xi, to help them destabilize Western democracies through his insults, attacks, lies, and threats. Along with Canada, Denmark, Colombia, Brazil, Panama, Iceland, South Africa, and the EU in general have been threatened. Plus, he has attacked or threatened several non-democracies, including Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen, Iraq, Somalia, Oman, and Cuba. He has \u2014 so far \u2014 bombed eight nations<\/a>, threatened eight more<\/a>. His term is barely half-over, and there are many other nations to bully, threaten, coerce, and, of course, bomb. As he grows increasingly erratic and vicious, Canada \u2014 which he has frequently stated angers him for our defiance and courage \u2014 might be one of those next nations he bombs.<\/p>\n

Readers may have seen the famous quote from Carl von Clausewitz<\/a>‘s book, On War<\/em>, written as, “War is a mere continuation of policy by other means.” But what he actually wrote in Book 1, Chapter 1, Section 24 is a bit more subtle: “…war is not merely an act of policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, carried on with other means… The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and means can never be considered in isolation from their purpose.” **<\/span><\/p>\n

By that definition, Trump’s trade war (combined with his propaganda and disinformation war against us) and his frequent identification of Canada as the enemy that needs to be subjugated is just that: an actual war. Not yet broken out in fighting and invasion, but that may come. One is reminded both of Putin’s threats to Ukraine before invading, and Hitler’s threats to Poland in 1939.<\/p>\n

Not everyone in his administration is as stupid as Trump, Hegseth, or his ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra. Many in Trump’s cabinet are as voraciously greedy and egregiously corrupt as his family members, but unlike them, they are relatively smart. They are also tightly focused on using their positions to grift as much as possible from the USian people during their time in office. They, like everyone in the Repugnican Party, have no morals or ethics, and will start a war with former allies if it enriches themselves. Heed the relentless anti-Canadian lies, threats, and rhetoric coming from Trump’s administration<\/a> and his vice-president<\/a>. They’re setting the stage to justify extreme action against us.<\/p>\n

On October 29, PM Mark Carney rather quietly announced (as Tod Maffin<\/a> tells us in his “Just Read the Damned Thing” video) the Plan for a Stronger Canada,<\/strong><\/a><\/em> the first national security strategy document released in two decades.<\/em> Although some media repeated the accompanying release, I can find no media comment on or analysis of it, nor any questions reporters asked of the prime minister about it. However, CTV news covered it:<\/p>\n

The release of the plan comes as the trade war with the United States deepens. Since re-entering the White House, U.S. President, Donald Trump has persistently vilified Canada and threatened to turn it into the 51st state. In a recent interview with The New York Times, Carney said he studied the \u201cextreme tail risk\u201d of U.S. military action against Canada.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am unsure if he meant the risk was extreme or extremely unlikely. Nonetheless, Carney “studied” it because it was a possibility.<\/p>\n

CTV’s piece quotes Wesley Wark, a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, who said: \u201cIt\u2019s clear that the message is around reducing Canada\u2019s dependence on unreliable allies like the United States.” The USA is the only “unreliable ally” mentioned in the document.<\/p>\n

On page 5 of the Plan<\/em>, it says we should be prepared for the worst (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

Strengthening Canada\u2019s national security is a national imperative. We will:
\n\u2022 Be transparent and engage Canadians on the seriousness of the threats and the need for
\neffective responses.
\n\u2022 Prepare for all contingencies up to and including war and other worst-case scenarios.<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Pragmatically partner with countries who share our interests and work collectively
\nthrough variable geometry coalitions to strengthen our Strategic Capabilities and advance
\nour priorities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Plan,<\/em> to be fair, is not a fully fleshed-out strategy: it is really a plan to create more<\/em> plans sometime in the undefined future. But while it does not identify the USA as the enemy, it doesn’t say it is still an ally or even a friend. In fact, under National Security<\/em>, it says Canada should develop,<\/p>\n

A cooperative, clear-eyed relationship with the United States. We will work to maintain a relationship with the United States based on mutual respect, national sovereignty, and shared responsibility for the security of North America<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"TrumpThat doesn’t say much on the surface, but it says a lot underneath. The USA is the only other nation mentioned in the document. Based on “mutual respect” is telling, since the USA and the Trump MAGA administration clearly have no<\/em> respect for Canada, our institutions, our healthcare, our economy, or our sovereignty. Any “mutual respect” will only come from a later (non-MAGA) administration. It’s more like “mutual suspicion” right now.<\/p>\n

Few Canadians respect or trust the USA and its administration at present (aside from the treasonous Maple MAGA, Danielle Smith and her UCP, and the rage-farming Trump mimic PoiLIEvre’s extremist base and his MP Jamil Jivani). “Clear-eyed” also suggests Canada has been wearing rose-coloured glasses in the past when inking trade, defence, and security agreements with the USA. Those days are gone. We wear cynical and suspicious lenses now.<\/p>\n

Under Foreign Polic<\/em>y (p. 9), it says Canada must “Build a new partnership with the United States.” Which is an understated way of acknowledging that the long partnership and friendship we have had with the USA is no longer functional and has to be reconstructed \u2014 warily, given the USA’s recent turn to autocracy and fascism.***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Also under Foreign Policy<\/em>, it says the government will produce a plan to “Diversify Canada\u2019s trade relationships while protecting our national and economic security, including communities vulnerable to transnational repression.” But who are those “communities vulnerable to transnational repression” in the Plan? Are they internal or external to Canada? What exactly is “transnational repression”? Is it the MAGA effort to aid Alberta separatists?<\/p>\n

PM Carney has already been working to diversify (i.e. find trading partners more reliable and trustworthy than the USA) Canada’s international trade. As Global News reported, at the latest EU summit, Carney signed an agreement with the EU<\/a> to build stronger and more reliable relations, because the world has become “increasingly ‘dangerous and divided’ and where trade has become ‘weaponized.'”\u00a0Carney later said of the agreement, clearly with an eye to Trump and the USA as the administration continues to try to bend Canada to its political will and make us a colony,<\/p>\n

And above all, it\u2019s about sovereignty, about being able to live our lives as we wish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n