Is Our Hockey-Loving, Liberal Neighbor Morphing Into A Chinese Communist Proxy?

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In the latest sign that Canada’s relationship with the United States has deteriorated beyond repair, the Canadian government has announced plans to funnel billions of military spending into domestic manufacturing, rather than sending that money to American defense companies.

According to the New York Times, the new plan will direct 70% of Canadian military spending to Canadian companies and attempt to boost Canada’s arms exports by 50%. Canada will also begin to focus on the Arctic, increasing spending on research and development in that region by 85%. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stressed that his country will no longer get 70-75% of its weapons from the U.S. (RELATED: Canadian PM Gives Rambling Explanation For Declaring ‘New World Order’ During China Meeting)

The Canadians believe the plan will lead to 125,000 additional jobs in the defense sector within a decade.

“Long-held assumptions have been upended — about the end of imperial conquest, the durability of peace in Europe, and the resilience of old alliances,” a policy document says, according to The New York Times. “It is more important than ever that Canada possess the capacity to sustain its own defense and safeguard its own sovereignty.”

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a press conference at Ritan Park in Beijing on January 16, 2026. (Photo by Adek BERRY / AFP via Getty Images)

Canada’s shift away from U.S. arms manufacturers shows that the country is pretty serious about the new global order, one led by China rather than America.

In January, Carney traveled to China to visit with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other CCP officials. It was the first visit by a Canadian prime minister in a decade, driven in large part by President Trump’s trade war. He praised Xi’s leadership and had an optimistic outlook on the future, saying, “The world has changed much since that last visit. I believe the progress that we have made in the partnership sets us up well for the new world order.”

During that trip, the two countries announced a new Ottawa-Beijing partnership announced Jan. 16. The partnership included a stated goal of 50% increased Canadian exports to China by 2030, the expansion of Chinese EVS in Canada, a 70% reduction of tariffs on Canadian canola seed, and a drop in tariffs on Canadian seafood exports.

This isn’t the first time the Canadians have tried to piggyback off an authoritarian regime for economic benefit. The Canadian government welcomed many wealthy Iranians from the first diaspora, immediately before and after the 1979 Islamic revolution, because they were educated and had the means to invest in and boost the economy. More waves of immigrants, who achieved some financial success under the Ayatollah regime, arrived later.

However, there are now fears that these later immigrants are more sympathetic to Iran or even maintain close business ties. Despite the Canadian government’s anti-Iran stance and its attempts to crack down on former regime officials trying to move to Canada, an Iranian-Canadian immigration lawyer, Ram Joubin, has warned that many immigrants are still coming to his country to spy on behalf of the autocrats in Tehran.

“The concern is that some people from Iran are using the refugee system to come here to actually spy on Canadians,” Joubin told the Vancouver Sun. “I have to drop them as clients or refund them. But I’m not allowed to tell the police because of client confidentiality.”

Although Canada’s embrace of China isn’t quite similar to its mass invitation to Iranian migrants, one could easily imagine a scenario in which Chinese nationals flood the country to engage in espionage on behalf of Beijing.

But a real alliance with Beijing would be much worse than simply accepting the Iranian diaspora. Joel Kotkin, a presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University and a senior research fellow at the Civitas Institute, warned that although partnering with China may seem like a good strategic choice in the short run, the Chinese state has imperial ambitions and seeks “global hegemony based on trade with an array of vassal states.” If Canadians were to embrace future partnerships and trade deals with the Chinese, they would be “replacing domination by one historically benign and democratic constitutional state [USA] with an authoritarian country that respects none of our shared values.”

Chinese President Xi Jinping (centre L) and Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney (2nd R) attend a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on January 16, 2026. (Photo by Vincent Thian / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

“Canada is a perfect vassal state in that it possesses all that China desires — oil and gas, rare metals, grain, and fish — that Canada will exchange for far more lucrative manufactures,” Kotkin wrote in the National Post earlier in February. “Canada is also a relatively unpopulated country that eschews nationalism and provides a wealth of wonderful destinations for the massively growing legions of Chinese tourists and property speculators.”

As Kotkin argues, the Ottawa-Beijing partnership could be bad news for Canadians. But it also might be bad news for the United States. Economically, we lose out to China as it floods Canada with Chinese-made electric vehicles rather than American-made cars. We are about to lose a big market for selling American weapons. And now our closest geographic neighbor, aside from Mexico, is under the thumb of our top adversary.

The simple question becomes: would we rather deal with a passive, liberal democracy, reliant on our weapons and exports, or do we want a vassal state beholden to Chinese interests that has its own military manufacturing capability?

If there was ever going to be a war between the U.S. and Canada — which sounds almost preposterous now, but is not at all impossible — it would come about because of the latter scenario: because Canada has become a Chinese vassal state.

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