Meinung: MAGAs Plan für Kanada: keine Annexion, sondern Zerstückelung

>Annexation may not be on the table. But the idea that Canada must be tamed, subdued, brought to heel – reduced, in other words, to a vassal state – is very much part of MAGA thinking. Bad enough that we have degenerated into a socialist, woke dystopia. But we are also resisting American dictates in matters of foreign, defence, and trade policy. We have become a problem, in need of a solution.

And the leader of the opposition just lent some legitimacy to one of the more important voices in supporting MAGA, who himself [has referred to Canada as being communist](https://globalnews.ca/news/8997721/joe-rogan-canada-communist-justin-trudeau-sketchy-dictator/) and regularly throws shade on our nation.

>Last summer DARC ran a piece on “[Our Canadian Problem](https://archive.is/o/aJHlw/https://defenseanalyses.org/work/our-canadian-problem/),” which described how Canada, born of anti-Americanism, had lately resumed this adversarial posture, under the influence of multiculturalism, the judiciary and the 1982 Constitution. Canada, the author wrote, “is poised in coming years to become a serious and present threat to the interests of the United States.”

Which, to be clear, is a threat insofar as our embracing of multiculturalism and the rule of law is a threat to a nation that rejects multiculturalism and the rule of law.

>“Canada’s desire for strategic autonomy,” [he writes](https://archive.is/o/aJHlw/https://defenseanalyses.org/work/the-centrifugal-strategy/), “poses a serious national security problem for the United States,” citing the Carney government’s recent trade deal with China. “The United States cannot share the longest undefended border in the world with a country so eager to court hostile great powers in our hemisphere.”

The threat isn’t a military one, it’s a commercial one. If trade with China increases in Canada it will compete with American trade for Canadian resources and dollars. Americans will need to improve their offer in order to access our markets and resources; which is good for Canada but bad for the USA.

It’s telling that our would-be *free market conservatives* have their hackles up over diversifying Canada’s trade. We really ought to pass legislation to shine light on *all forms of* foreign spending in Canada. Let us see who is receiving foreign funding; *just who pays the bills for these politically-adjacent persons and organizations?*

>“Canada will dig its own grave soon.” American policy should be limited to giving these “centrifugal forces” a helpful nudge, whether by covert aid to secessionist movements or by “supporting the native ‘reconciliation’ efforts,” which will “further demoralize the Canadian elites.”

There’s a great deal of gnashing of teeth over reconciliation, particularly with aboriginal title, but thus far the outcome for the average Canadian is a whole lot of nothing.

Similarly, sovereigntist movements in Canada have proven more likely to be a *healthy* counter-balance to federalism than a meaningful and existential threat to our nation. And if we were to clamp down on foreign interference and influence on Canadians then I’m *certain* Alberta’s peculiar form of separatism would fizzle out.