On the other hand, the latest Canadian prime minister already knew that China “is not the right dance partner.” Will the real Mark Carney please stand up?
This is from an April 2025 story:
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney said that China is one of the largest threats with respect to foreign interference in Canada and is an emerging threat in the Arctic.
In a debate Thursday night ahead of the April 28 election, Carney replied “China,” when asked to name Canada’s biggest security threat.
Asked to elaborate at a news conference in Niagara Falls on Friday, Carney said Canada has to counter Chinese foreign interference threats. He also criticized China for being a partner with Russia in the war with Ukraine and said it is a threat to broader Asia and Taiwan in particular.
Carney said China is the biggest threat “from a geopolitical sense.”
“We’re taking action to address,” he added.
Sounds definitive-ish.
Today, Carney (shown above with Xi Jinping) has agreed to massively expand imports from China, at present focusing on a “preliminary but landmark” deal to let “up to 49,000 Chinese EVs into the country under the most-favored nation tariff rate of 6.1 percent” in exchange for cuts in PRC tariffs on Canadian canola and a mess of pottage. This is not how one decouples from the biggest security threat to one’s country.
Carney aujourd’hui (AOL, January 16, 2026):
A new strategic partnership between China and Canada could set both nations up for the “new world order”, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney said during a historic trip to Beijing for trade talks.
Mr Carney arrived in Beijing on Wednesday night for a four-day visit designed to repair ties between the two nations as Canada hopes to firm up relations with countries other than the US. It’s the first visit by a Canadian leader to China in nearly a decade.
“The world has changed much since that last visit. I believe the progress that we have made in the partnership sets us up well for the new world order,” Mr Carney said.
China dictator Xi Jinjing also welcomes the setting up of a new world order.
Mr Xi said he was also “pleased” with the months of cooperation between the two countries across various fields. “The healthy and stable development of China-Canada relations is conducive to world peace, stability, development, and prosperity,” Mr Xi told the visiting prime minister.
Cooperation, health, stability, peace, development, prosperity. If we concentrate on these words and ignore all else we know, sounds great.
Others, like Canadian MP Blaine Calkins, are not pleased.
Mr Calkins posted on X: “Mark Carney is talking to the communist human rights abusing PRC regime about a ‘new world order’… WHAT on earth is he talking about? I didn’t recognize Canada when Trudeau was the Prime Minister. I didn’t think things could get any worse.”
Here is Tony Clement, a former conservative minister who served under Prime Minister Stephen Harper, as interviewed by CTV News:
“The Chinese Communist Party is not the right dance partner. They kidnapped two of our citizens. They tried to interfere with our elections. And…there’s a lot of espionage and skullduggery that goes along with dealing with the Chinese Communist Party. There’s lots of other choices out there, Japan, Korea, even, in Asia, Vietnam even.”
The Hill quotes conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, who “slammed the deal, claiming it would hurt the Canadian auto industry, while asking how the prime minister squared his warm comments in Beijing with previous warnings that China was Canada’s ‘biggest security threat.’ ”
That’s okay
President Trump, who seems to alternate between 20/20 vision and blinders, expressed his support for Carney’s dealmaking. “That’s okay. That’s what he should be doing. I mean, it’s a good thing for him to sign a trade deal. If you can get a deal with China, you should do that.”
One could not make a great case against “hurting the Canadian auto industry” by allowing greater competition from the EVs of another country if the electric vehicles were coming out of France or Luxembourg. But Carney’s deal helps the Chinese Communist Party. Strengthening China is not the same as weakening China. Strengthening the biggest security threat is not the right “action to address” the threat.
Also see:
StoptheCCP.org: “Canadians in Cahoots With the Chinese Communist Party”
StoptheCCP.org: “Why Chinese Interference in Canadian Elections Supposedly Doesn’t Matter”
StoptheCCP.org: “An Upside Down View of Red China’s Global Ambitions”
StoptheCCP.org: “CCP Pal David Cottam Versus ‘Wild Claims’ About Chinese Spying, Tyranny”
