National Post: “China is only interested in Canada insofar as we are attached to the United States, insofar as we have access to the American market, and insofar as we have access to American intelligence. Take that away, and China has no interest in us. It is entirely incompatible with our way of life as Canadians to be in any kind of strategic partnership with a way of life that believes that liberty is not promised to us … We believe in equality above all else. Those two ways of life cannot exist peacefully.
It is to our eternal shame, and really a betrayal of the Canadian people, that we have not been told that the tariffs are about China, and I believe that as USMCA negotiations heat up in the next few weeks, we’re going to start hearing this much more. What we need to do is to be a fortress North America. There is no reason why Canada and the United States should not serve as the bulwark against the Communist Party in North America. That means shared economic security and prosperity, and that means shared continental security as well.”…