Amid ‘Buy Canadian’ fervour, Canada’s top pension funds still heavily invested in U.S.

For all the fear over the U.S. trade war and President Donald Trump’s threats to Canadian sovereignty, this country’s biggest pension funds remain heavily invested in the U.S.

The Canada Pension Plan (CPP), the largest pension fund in the country, announced this week that it has grown to a record $780.7 billion in assets, with 47 per cent invested in the U.S., compared to only 13 per cent in Canada.

That level of U.S. ownership hasn’t budged in the year since Trump retook office, according to third-quarter results released on Friday.


But it gets better … kidding

h/t handy n handsome

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Dennis Molinaro: Diversifying trade with China is a losing play

I wrote the following in my book Under Assault: Interference and Espionage in China’s Secret War Against Canada:

“An economic slump in the U.S. was going to affect Canada’s financial health, and so trade diversification again became a driving consideration. But instead of diversifying trade with like-minded democracies, Canada went begging at the doorstep of the Communist state that had been engaged in foreign interference and espionage against Canada and the U.S. for the past 30 years.”

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GOLDSTEIN: The massive carbon footprint of Trudeau’s post-political life

If you want to understand why Justin Trudeau’s climate change policies were more about virtue signalling than actual virtue, look at his life post politics.

Between purchasing a $4.26-million mansion in Montreal’s pricey Outremont borough – an affluent residential area known for its stately Victorian homes – and gallivanting around the world with Katy Perry, Trudeau has become a living postcard of a life of excess consumption that climate change fanatics routinely condemn.

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The thing everyone is talking about but no one is thinking about in Ottawa politics

The fun thing about Ottawa is that it’s a town where people will swear with a straight face that they’re not thinking about a thing they are definitely thinking about, which is also the thing everyone is talking about.

This week, that thing is snap-election speculation.


It all depends on whether Xi decides the time is right.

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Randall Denley: Carney’s EV plan benefits Carney, not Canadian carmakers

At first glance, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new auto industry strategy looks like billions of dollars in support for Ontario’s beleaguered vehicle manufacturers. Unfortunately, Carney’s EV-focused approach will do little or nothing to solve the industry’s problems.

It’s difficult to imagine a plan more untethered from the economic realities of the real-world auto industry. To summarize, the Carney plan relies on electric vehicles (EVs) that Ontario plants don’t produce, a sudden and dramatic new appetite for buying EVs and an imagined export market that doesn’t exist. To top it off, the federal government will provide $2.3 billion in EV rebates that will encourage Canadians to buy cars made elsewhere, although the new Chinese imports are excluded.

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CSIS officials say China is more of a concern in Canada’s Arctic than Russia

Lynd’s warning comes just a month after Prime Minister Mark Carney signed a new ‘strategic partnership’ with China

OTTAWA — While Russia remains a military threat in the Arctic, Canada’s security officials told a House of Commons committee this week that they remain primarily focused on China’s threats to economic security in the North.

“Russia has a tremendous interest and focus in the Arctic,” Paul Lynd, assistant director at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), told the foreign affairs committee on Thursday. “However, they are of less concern than, say, the activities of China and other hostile state actors at this time.”

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Qatar’s School Textbooks Promote Antisemitism and Hatred of Non-Muslims

An investigation has uncovered Qatari textbooks for the 2025-2026 school year that demonize Jews, delegitimize Israel, glorify jihad, portray Christians as idolaters, condemn Christianity and Judaism as corrupt religions, and promote Islamic supremacism.

In February 2026, the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) published a report that refutes the notion that Qatar is religiously tolerant, an image former Fox News host Tucker Carlson promotes.


Wow! Carney and Tucker Carlson reading from the same playbook!

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WARMINGTON: Will massive Toronto rally for abused Iranians be heard by Ayatollah or Trump?

Ayatollah Khamenei may not know there could be up to 300,000 people on Toronto streets Saturday hoping for the end of his tyrannical extremist Islamist dictatorship.

And U.S. President Donald J. Trump, who has posted to social media that “help is on way,” may also be unaware.


I wish them well but they won’t be heard by anyone least of all by Carney and his Islamist caucus.  Given the number of Mullah regime members found to be resident in Canada I suspect the LPC is working on ratline to secure a safe haven for them.

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Hong Kong Diaspora Groups Sound the Alarm on Carney’s Secret PRC Police Deal

OTTAWA — Ten Hong Kong diaspora organizations—spanning Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe—have issued an extraordinary open letter to the Government of Canada expressing “deep fear and anxiety” over Mark Carney’s deal on law enforcement cooperation signed between the RCMP and the Ministry of Public Security of the People’s Republic of China.

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John Ivison: Carney seeks ‘parliamentary exchange’ with a China that targets our MPs

As part of his trip to Beijing last month, Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Zhao Leji, the third-ranking member of the 20th Chinese Communist Party Politburo and chair of the standing committee of the National People’s Congress.

The readout that emerged from the meeting said they talked about the importance of ongoing parliamentary exchanges and “opportunities for enhanced understanding and communication” between the two countries.

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HANNAFORD: Can Canada be defended at all?

Tonight we take a hard look at Prime Minister Mark Carney’s ambitions for Canada’s national defence. Over the past several months, the Prime Minister has spoken forcefully about living in a world of predatory great powers, about rebuilding the Canadian Armed Forces, strengthening NATO commitments, and dramatically increasing defence spending — even doubling it by 2030.

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Canada not on track to hit net-zero by 2050, or meet any climate targets says sketchy climate alarmist group that receives mucho government handouts

OTTAWA – A new study published Friday by the Canadian Climate Institute says Canada is not on track to meet any of its climate targets — not the 2026 interim emissions reduction target, the 2030 Paris Agreement commitment, or even the long-term goal of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050.

The report suggests Canada has moved away from its climate goals thanks to “a slackening of policy effort over the past year, marked by the removal or weakening of climate policies across the country.”

Guess who wrote the report.

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Terry Glavin: China’s ever-deepening infiltration of Canada

A disturbing new investigation detailing the expansion of Beijing’s overseas influence infrastructure reveals there are now more than 2,000 organizations in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany that the Chinese Communist Party is capable of mobilizing to advance its agenda.

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‘You’re making this up,’ Miller tells Tory MP over media producers group comments

OTTAWA – Culture Minister Marc Miller has accused a Conservative MP of misleading a Parliamentary committee over a comment made by the head of an independent producers’ group.

During a Heritage committee hearing today, MP Rachael Thomas mentioned the head of the Canadian Media Producers Association stating at a recent conference that the industry and the prime minister have each other’s backs.

The organization represents independent TV and film producers, and the key issue at the conference was funding for Canadian content in the Online Streaming Act.

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