BARBER: Mark Carney’s agendas and deception

From EV mandates to “new world order” rhetoric, the Prime Minister’s trade strategy risks Canadian jobs, energy sovereignty, and Alberta’s future.

Multiple mainstream media (MSM) news sources in Canada and the United States (US) have recently reported that Mark Carney struck a trade deal with China in response to Trump’s tariffs. This short statement says more than meets the eye.

The CUSMA (aka USMCA), which largely eliminates tariffs, became effective in 2020. This agreement removes tariffs from most agricultural goods, energy, and many industrial goods. A few items, such as steel, aluminium, and softwood lumber, are exceptions. This means that the recent US tariffs imposed by President Trump do not apply to Canadian goods qualified under CUSMA. Therefore, these new tariffs cannot be the primary motivating factor for Prime Minister Carney’s deal with China.

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China’s envoy says Beijing, Ottawa ‘eye to eye’ on supporting Greenland

OTTAWA — China’s envoy to Canada says the two countries “see eye to eye” on the need to support Greenland’s territorial integrity and Beijing wants to play a productive role in the North — even as analysts warn Moscow and Beijing are working together in the region.

“China’s consistent policy is to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries. That goes to Greenland, that goes to Canada, and that goes through all the other countries,” Chinese Ambassador Wang Di said through an interpreter this week.

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China’s Xi Places His Top General Under Investigation as Military Purges Heat Up

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has placed his most senior general under investigation, extending a relentless crackdown on military corruption and disloyalty that is hollowing out the top ranks of one of the world’s most powerful armed forces.

Gen. Zhang Youxia, the senior of two vice chairmen on the Communist Party’s top military decision-making body and China’s No. 1 general, is being probed for allegedly committing severe violations of party discipline and state laws, a spokesman for China’s Defense Ministry said Saturday.


Can’t wait till Carney is summoned.

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Canada’s auto sector is in serious trouble. Are Chinese EVs the solution?

When Trevor Melanson arrived in Reykjavik, Iceland, last July to pick up his rental car, he was “pleasantly surprised” to be handed the keys to an electric vehicle that most North Americans could only dream of driving — a Chinese BYD.

Melanson, from Vancouver, B.C., was curious to try out a car he had heard so much about — in this case a silver hatchback — but had never seen. When he got behind the wheel of this “efficient car that checks all the boxes,” he realized it was a vehicle that many Canadians would like.


Carney’s propaganda rag the Toronto Star published this article on the same day Trump threatened 100% tariffs over Ottawa’s merger with China’s godless communists and a week after running a piece saying China was unlikely to invest in Canadian EV manufacturing plants.

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Beijing’s Lying Liberals assure Trump: ‘no pursuit’ of free trade with China, after 100% tariff threat

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government is pushing back against U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest threat to impose 100 per cent tariffs on all Canadian imports if Ottawa makes a trade deal with China, insisting there is no deal in the works.

After Trump delivered the ultimatum on Saturday, Minister for Canada-U.S. Trade, Dominic LeBlanc, posted a response on X.

So what happened since last week to change Carney’s mind about his New World Order?

h/t Mauser

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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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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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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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Chinese EVs are coming to Canada. So should they be built here too?

The Canadian auto sector could be poised for its biggest shakeup since the arrival decades ago of Ontario assembly plants operated by Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co.

Much depends on whether Prime Minister Mark Carney pushes beyond last week’s landmark decision by Ottawa to allow up to 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) into the Canadian market after effectively banning them with 100 per cent tariffs since August 2024.


Carney will let his CCP handlers do as they wish.

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Trade with China, But Don’t Fall in Love

Canada’s recent trade advances with China—including renewed access for canola, lobster, and beef, alongside the lifting of visa restrictions—have triggered predictable reactions at home. Some see these developments as a long-overdue reset in a strained relationship. Others worry Canada is drifting into geopolitical territory that could unsettle our most important ally, the United States. As is often the case with trade, the reality is more nuanced than either camp suggests.

h/t handy n handsome

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Lutnick suggests Canada-China deal threatens CUSMA renegotiation

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says Canada is “playing with a set of rules that they haven’t really thought through” by moving to reset relations with China ahead of trade deal renegotiations with the United States.

Lutnick made the comments in an interview with Bloomberg in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday.

h/t Mauser

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How the Ottawa-Beijing Agreement Plays Into China’s Factional Struggles and Emboldens Xi

Chinese state-owned media hailed Canada’s new agreement with Beijing and pursuit of “strategic partnership,” with the regime’s China Daily saying Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit “reflects China’s increasing global stature.”

Amid factional infighting and struggles, Carney’s visit is being portrayed as a win for Chinese leader Xi Jinping, whose side has been increasingly sidelined in recent months, says Wang He, a senior China commentator with The Epoch Times and former university lecturer.

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