Carney government showing a ‘clear reluctance’ to criticize Trump with lack of direct condemnation over Venezuela raid, says past Liberal foreign minister Axworthy
Carney government showing a ‘clear reluctance’ to criticize Trump with lack of direct condemnation over Venezuela raid, says past Liberal foreign minister Axworthy
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Axworthy said that Canada should be among the first countries to make a stand to assert that the Western Hemisphere isn’t the U.S.’s “personal preserve.”
Totally agree with Axworthy on this.
If the pedo administration thinks it has carte-blanche on the whole hemisphere we’re fucked
Why would the Canadian government condemn something that they support?
Canada has for the most part, always sided with the USA when it comes to dictatorships in the global South (with our stance towards Cuba being the exception).
Companies listed on the TSX are going to be the first to benefit from resource extraction in Venezuela.
Made this comment in another thread on this story but, people may disagree with me here and that’s fine, but to everyone saying *”We can’t criticize him because what if he invades us next?”* clearly has been missing what’s been happening the last few months. ***Every time*** we try to lay-low or appease the Trump regime he ends up walking over us again. Look at the Digital Services Tax walk back, the elbows down moment after the Regan ad, etc… I’m sorry but at some point we have to acknowledge that appeasing Trump just doesn’t work.
I hope Carney eventually comes to this conclusion too. Trump is volatile no matter what we do. We have either act like a strong independent nation, decoupled from US Foreign policy or we’re simply a vassal state.
Canada rejected taking part in the Iraq war in 2003. It feels like Carney wouldn’t do the same as Chrétien did.
” Trump in a single gaggle on Air Force One just threatened:
— a second strike against Venezuela
— Cuba
— Mexico
— Colombia
— Iran
— Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark) ”
Via Aaron Rupar.
Lindsey Graham was saying they’re going to attack Cuba pretty soon too. Trump told them Greenland is for a couple months later.
Clock is ticking for us. Relying on TACO is a poor man’s strategy in 2026.
Words matter. Government gotta realize were much closer to being in the postion of Mexico then they’d like to admit. Trump respects Putin more then Carney. Anyday.
We’re still afraid of calling out his bullshit while they’re openly telling us who they will attack next.
> “We’ve put ourselves into a box, and we’re losing relevance and respect,” he told The Hill Times during a Jan. 3 interview. “It’s a very big mistake for Canada to lose its place and perch on those issues which we’ve clearly identified for over the last 80 years.”
He nailed it. The current liberal party is so timid and scared they can’t say things with their full chest that Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela, Brasil, Chile and others have been saying for years about American interference and the Monroe doctrine.
Canadians need to wake up and understand they were always right about impearlism and American behavior.
Silence and complicity with the Monroe doctrine is a betrayal of supposed values but also betrays the trust we need with nations also being targeted by the U.S.
The Liberal party’s cowardice will have real consequences. Its more dangerous for everyone.
Why would he directly “condemn it”? As if that accomplishes anything. The US did something, we had no say in the matter and never will unless asked. Looks like a corrupt dictator got what he had coming.
Lloyd Axworthy: a man who advocated a duty to protect, with zero detail about who or how that could happen. A fine, academic ideal, but not particularly helpful in the real world.
Trump found ways to punish Canada for Doug Ford’s factual video about Reagan… And let’s not forget that the Reagan Library threw Reagan under the bus and sided with Trump over what was said in the video. People, these are not normal times.
Condeming the USA with rhetoric, alone, will likely come with a consequence that most Canadians will not like. Doing that over a dictator we already despised is a genuinely bad foreign policy choice.
Do we do nothing? Of course not. In fact, this is a clarion call to action. But our actions should be about living in this new world. In one piece.
Nor should he right now. DJT is too unpredictable. Look how pissed he got about the commercial from Ford. DJT used it as an excuse to stop negotiating with us. We don’t need to do things to poke the bear. Hopefully we can ride the term out until someone else is in power. We should however do everything possible to insulate ourselves from the US in every way possible. More trading partners, more military spending, couple more planes too would be nice.
Last year, when Trump threatened Canada with annexation, the rest of the world was silent.
When he started imposing tariffs, we retaliated with tariffs but no one else did outside of China. Instead they all ran to “kiss the ring”.
NATO is just a way to get Canadians killed for Europe, they aren’t going to die for us.
We are alone in a room with a crazy violent person and need to be very strategic in how we address these situations.
Yet he had no problem recognizing Palestine or saying that Netanyahu would be arrested in Canada, which Trump wasn’t exactly thrilled about. How exactly does he decide when it’s okay for him to oppose Trump?