Canadian Servility to U.S. War Agenda ‘Rewarded’ with 35 Percent Tariffs

 

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once said “it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”

Canada has been servile to the U.S. war agenda under Prime Minister Mark Carney, a former Governor of the Bank of Canada and Bank of England, whose professional loyalties have been with the business and government elites who allowed him to rise to his current status.

But what has the reward been for Canada’s servility under Carney?

Tariffs of 35%—which were justified by the claim that Canada was allowing huge amounts of fentanyl to get into the U.S.—and a policy to destroy Canada’s auto-manufacturing industry within one year.

In May, U.S. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce told a media briefing in Washington that the U.S. government “wants Ottawa’s help in countering the Chinese Communist Party influence in our hemisphere.”

Canada, however, had already long been assisting the U.S. in targeting China as part of its overall subservience to the U.S. foreign policy agenda.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) began to push the China danger narrative in Canada after receiving messaging from U.S. intelligence agencies about the telecommunications giant Huawei in spring 2018. The U.S. considered Huawei to be a threat to the U.S. and wanted to weaken or bankrupt the state-owned company.  (more...)

Canadian Servility to U.S. War Agenda ‘Rewarded’ with 35 Percent Tariffs