Pro-China Networks Amplified Carney’s Beijing Messaging to Attack U.S. Policy, Echoing a 2025 Election Pattern, Analyst Finds

OTTAWA — A social network analysis firm says Chinese state and pro-China accounts amplified Prime Minister Mark Carney’s statements across major Western platforms during his Jan. 14–17 trip to Beijing—praising Canada while using his remarks to criticize U.S. policy toward China—in geopolitical messaging that, Graphika’s data suggest, mirrors a pattern observed prior to the 2025 Canadian general election, when pro-China actors promoted Carney’s stance on U.S. tariffs to advance narratives aligned with China’s strategic goals.

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Starmer, Carney and the twilight of the globalists

‘The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.’ Opinion writers have once again been dusting off Thucydides’ ancient dictum, in a desperate attempt to understand the new world another tumultuous week in international affairs has left us in… and to find a vaguely intelligent-sounding opener to a column. A crime – I guess – of which I am also now guilty.

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This Carney Is a Clown: The Insufferable Cowardice of Canada

Our commitment to NATO’s Article 5 is unwavering, so we’re working with our NATO allies, including the Nordic Baltic Gate, to further secure the alliance’s northern and western flanks, including through Canada’s unprecedented investments in over-the-horizon radar, in submarines, in aircraft and boots on the ground, boots on the ice.

—Prime Minister Mark Carney, Jan. 20, 2026, Davos address

“Unwavering,” eh? Hmm, let me consult my Canadian-to-English dictionary… aha! Turns out “unwavering” is Canadian for “underfunded by freeriding, Maple syrup-slurping cheapskates”: Canada hasn’t honored its 2% NATO defense spending agreement in nearly 40 years!

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Carney’s Plains of Abraham remarks show ‘historic error’

QUEBEC — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s statement that the Plains of Abraham symbolize the start of something good shows his complete lack of knowledge of Quebec history, politicians said Friday.

“What a gaffe, what a historic error,” Immigration Minister Jean-François Roberge said in an interview with Radio-Canada. “The Battle of the Plains of Abraham are the conquest, the culmination point where the English came and defeated the French and burned villages, etc.

“There’s nothing glorious in this.

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BORG: Quebec is the only province backing the federal ‘gun grab’

Lying Liberal DEI MP

Quebec is now the only province openly willing to work with Ottawa on its federal “gun grab,” a reality that is hardening regional divisions and deepening skepticism about the so-called “assault-style” firearms compensation program.

While most provinces and many major police services have either rejected or distanced themselves from the initiative, Quebec has signalled its readiness to cooperate with the federal government on implementation. That decision has left Quebec increasingly isolated as the rest of the country pushes back against what critics routinely describe as a “gun grab.”

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Michael Higgins: Carney wants ‘justice’ for the world, but what about for Canadians?

It is always a little worrying when politicians wrap themselves in the flag. Patriotism is such an easy emotion to arouse that the public, with banners flying, almost always rally to the “cause” — whatever the cause is.

So it was Thursday, when Prime Minister Mark Carney, fresh from his triumph at Davos, made a speech in Quebec that declared Canada the greatest country on earth.

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8,500 notices issued to federal workers this week, including Global Affairs

Approximately 8,500 federal public servants received notices this week their jobs may be risk as part of the federal government’s move to cut 28,000 jobs from the federal public service over the next four years.

At least 12 federal departments notified employees about plans for the comprehensive expenditure review, including to approximately 2,000 employees at Health Canada and 2,300 at Global Affairs Canada receiving notices.

The Canada Strong Budget 2025 outlined a plan to cut another 28,000 positions from the federal public service over the next four years and find $60 billion in savings.


How many will be hired back after a short layoff either as regular employees or consultants?

Hey Grok! How many federal government public servants were hired during Justin Trudeau’s tenure as Prime Minister of Canada?

Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister of Canada in November 2015, following the federal election in October 2015. The standard measure for the size of the federal public service (often referred to as federal public servants or the core federal public administration plus separate agencies) comes from official Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat data, which reports annual snapshots as of March 31 each year.This data shows the population of the federal public service (employees governed under the Financial Administration Act Schedules I, IV, and V):March 31, 2015 (pre-Trudeau, end of Harper era): 257,034

March 31, 2024 (peak during Trudeau’s tenure): 367,772

This represents a net increase of 110,738 employees (367,772 – 257,034) over the period from just before his tenure began through to the 2024 peak.

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China no longer Pentagon’s top security priority

China is no longer the top security priority for the US, according to the Pentagon’s new National Defense Strategy.

The document, published once every four years, instead says that the security of the US homeland and Western Hemisphere is the department’s chief concern, adding that Washington has long neglected the “concrete interests” of Americans.

The Pentagon also says it will offer “more limited” support to US allies.

It follows the publication last year of the US National Security Strategy, which said that Europe faced “civilizational collapse” and did not cast Russia as a threat to the US. At the time, Moscow said the document was “largely consistent” with its vision.


Not great news for Europe. For that matter it looks like the free ride is over for everyone.

Given Canada is a virtual ChiCom colony maybe we can expect an invasion.

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44% Of Canadians Fear President Trump More Than They Fear Mark Carney’s Boss Xi Jinping Says New Nanos Poll

From Page 11 of the pdf.

INCREASE IN THE PERCENTAGE OF CANADIANS WHO REPORT BELIEVING THE US/TRUMP IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THREAT TO CANADA RELATIVE TO THE DECREASE  IN THOSE WHO REPORT CHINA IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THREAT

Asked what they believe to be the most important international threat to Canada, forty-four percent of Canadians cite the US/Trump.

This more than doubled from the 17 percent of Canadians who reported believing the US/Trump was the most important international threat to Canada in the 2020 wave.

The next threats Canadians cite as most important are China (seven percent) and trade wars (also seven percent). While the percentage of Canadians citing trade wars as the most important international threat to Canada remained consistent relative to the 2020 wave (seven percent), it should be noted that the percentage of Canadians citing China as the most important threat decreased to seven percent in 2025 from twenty-two percent in 2020.

 

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I Fled Beijing’s AIIB Alleging CCP Influence. The Bank’s Appointment of a United Front Veteran Proves My Case: Bob Pickard

I was the global communications chief at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, a Beijing-headquartered multilateral development institution founded in 2016, until I resigned on principle in June 2023 over the undue influence of the Chinese Communist Party in the bank’s everyday operations. I directly experienced the toxic corporate culture that the party’s political contamination created.

While the bank denied my public allegations about the institution’s true nature, the installation of Zou Jiayi — a longtime Chinese finance official and Communist Party member — as AIIB’s new president this week should dispel any remaining illusions.


Freeland’s shitty little hands were all over this as I recall.

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SLOBODIAN: Watching the homeless from a five-star hotel — Ottawa’s housing advocate embarrasses Canada abroad

It’s sure a good thing her staff avoided booking rooms in “opulent” hotels when Canada’s self-described “watchdog for the homeless” jetted off on an extended junket to Egypt.

Marie-Josée Houle, a former punk rock musician who is now Cabinet’s $213,000-a-year Housing Advocate, and whoever accompanied her settled for rooms at the Marriott and Triumph hotels in Cairo.

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Bell: Carney puts on Captain Canada costume — we get words, more words

Two worlds apart.

Hundreds in the Alberta town of Stony Plain line up in -30 C wind chill weather to sign a petition so Albertans this fall can vote on a very important question.

Do you agree the province of Alberta should cease to be part of Canada to become an independent state?

At about the same time, in faraway Quebec City, Prime Minister Mark Carney addresses the nation. He wants to speak of national unity. He wants to score support.

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Pierre Poilievre: Carney’s Davos speech highlights that it is Liberal rhetoric that doesn’t match reality

Cowboy Carney

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s well-crafted and eloquently delivered speech at Davos has been widely noted, and I want to start by offering some praise of my own. The Prime Minister is right to restate what many have said for years: Canada must become more self-reliant, less dependent and work with like-minded countries to advance our interests. Conservatives are, as always, willing to work with him to turn these words into results.


Carney’s speech was about lifting the spirits of his globalist pals by assuring them that aligning with foreign despots & screwing over your fellow citizens for personal profit is a Good Thing.

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China sees a chance to lure jaded US allies

HONG KONG—China has seized upon the disarray left by President Trump within the trans-Atlantic alliance, denouncing his push to acquire Greenland and trying to entice U.S. allies with the promise of reliable trade partnerships.

But as some of Washington’s traditional allies tiptoe closer to Beijing, they appear clear-eyed about the danger of leaving the U.S. embrace only to end up in the hands of another superpower.

“In a world of great power rivalry, the countries in between have a choice—compete with each other for favor, or to combine to create a third path with impact,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney declared in a speech Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

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