Britische Atomwaffen können Kanada vor Trump schützen, sagt Trudeau Parteikandidat

***The Telegraph reports***:

Canada should seek closer ties with Britain because its nuclear weapons can help protect the country against Donald Trump, a Liberal party leader running to replace Justin Trudeau has said.

Chrystia Freeland, the former deputy prime minister under Mr Trudeau, said that US president is “clearly threatening our sovereignty” with his campaign to absorb Canada as the 51st state of America.

In order to “guarantee our security”, Ms Freeland said she would build closer security partnerships with European Nato allies and “I would be sure that France and Britain were there, who possess nuclear weapons”.

“I would be working urgently with those partners to build a closer security relationship… in a time when the United States can be a threat,” said the ex-foreign minister and finance minister at the final Liberal leadership debate last week.

The Liberal party has overtaken the Conservatives in the polls for the first time since 2021, surging on a backlash to Mr Trump and his mockery of Mr Trudeau as merely “Governor” of Canada.

Ms Freeland is running second in the race to Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England. She draws 31 per cent of voters against Mr Carney’s 43 per cent, a poll for Mainstreet Research found last week. Results are due on March 9.

The suggestion that Canada should seek to avail itself of Britain’s nuclear umbrella against the United States was criticised by Ms Freeland’s political opponents.

“I think that that was an insane thing to say,” said Danielle Smith, the conservative premier of Alberta, Canada’s wealthiest province.

“As if somehow we’re going to have a nuclear threat from the United States or counter some kind of nuclear threat,” Ms Smith told The Telegraph.

“The US is our friend and allied security partner,” she said, citing the North American Aerospace Defence Command (Norad) alliance, in which Canada and the United States share air defence of the continent.

“During 9/11 it was a Canadian commander that was giving direction on North American airspace on where those planes needed to land [he redirected US air traffic to Canadian bases]. That’s how integrated we are on the security front.”

“So anyone suggesting otherwise is just being silly.”

Britain’s Trident nuclear submarines rely on missiles and warhead designs from the United States, with which the UK shares nuclear materials, research and training under the 1958 US-UK mutual defence agreement.

In December, Ms Freeland dramatically resigned from Mr Trudeau’s government, revealing in an open letter that she had resisted “costly political gimmicks” as finance minister in order to face the challenge of looming US tariffs.

With his popularity at record lows, Mr Trudeau had offered Canadians a $250 CAD (£135) cash rebate and implemented a two-month holiday on General Sales Tax.

**Full story:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/03/03/british-nuclear-weapons-canada-trump-chrystia-freeland/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/03/03/british-nuclear-weapons-canada-trump-chrystia-freeland/)

In the Cold War, Europe had to ask whether the United States was willing to trade Seattle for Paris – whether they would risk a nuclear exchange with the USSR to honour their security guarantees to Europe against Russia.

Now, we’re seriously asking if the UK is willing to trade London for Toronto – to threaten a launch of atomic weapons against the United States to protect Canada from being conquered by our neighbour.

I’m astounded that it has come to this.

A natural consequence of MAGA foreign policy buffoonery is nuclear proliferation.

Well, DonOLD Dump has well and done it, we’re just completely the bad guys now, and in the dumbest way possible, we’re purposefully destroying an international order built and led by ourselves and our allies for our own benefit and security. I don’t even know how to cope, I just keep thinking about what Musk and Dump are doing everyday; its so stressful. All so this orange turd can get conned by Vladibitch Pooh-tin on false promises of a US-Russia success story.

When anti-intellectualism is celebrated, this is what you get

Trade _____ for _____

Freeland is a quack, and this is coming from a Canadian. She also has zero chance of beating Carney in the leadership race.

Donnons des charges nucléaires et des Rafale à nos cousins québecois.  
Et apprenons leur notre propre méthode de dissuasion nucléaire.  
Tabarnak d’ostie de calice !