Many sources confirm that Canada has serious security problems that hostile powers exploit extensively. The Canada-is-back naïveté animating the decaying Trudeau regime led to open borders and infiltration of foreign operatives inside key Canadian institutions, from the Winnipeg Lab to the Parliament of Canada.
Allies question Canada's eagerness to engage in an open diplomatic conflict with India, the world's largest democracy and fastest-growing economy while overlooking China's significantly more damaging actions despite being a formidable adversary to Western democracies today.
Possibly 40 percent of those caught or suspected of potential terror activities inside the United States entered through Canada. It is also well documented that the unguarded border is the point of entry for a significant amount of deadly illegal drugs like fentanyl coming from China. At Canada's ports of entry, authorities have openly admitted to checking less than 1 percent of all incoming containers. The net effect is that significant illegal activity, including human trafficking, comes into the United States through Canada.
That the situation on the US southern border is worse and there is plenty of crime coming into Canada from the US are lousy excuses not to act; Ottawa must not avoid its duty to guarantee the security of Canadians as much as to help protect our neighbour and closest ally. Fixing some of the border problems would be objectively good for Canada.
In the US, President Donald Trump aims to restore order. He intends to reverse his predecessor's chaotic open-border policies to enhance the country's security.
In part, perhaps because of frustration, and mostly because bombasts and hyperbole are his nature, Trump wants Canada to help him plug the security holes Canada's cavalier attitude to security enables.
Trump has threatened to slap a 25 percent tariff on all Canadian goods unless Canada does something about the border.
However, between Chrystia Freeland quitting Trudeau's cabinet and Trudeau quitting his party leadership, most references to Trump's tariff threats have omitted the border conditions, as if the threats came from nothing.
Why is that?
