Government's Backroom Deals Seek Further Economic and Military Integration into U.S.
The Carney government's latest
efforts to integrate Canada more deeply into the U.S. war
economy took place during and after the meeting between Prime
Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump in
Washington, DC on October 7. This "deal-making" is purportedly
to get relief from U.S. tariffs as part of economic and security
arrangements with the U.S., which includes putting Canada's
energy and critical mineral resources at the service of the U.S.
oligarchs. None of this has been put before the people for their
consideration.
Dominic LeBlanc, the Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade stayed behind in Washington, DC after Carney's meeting with Trump. Along with Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Kristen Hillman, he met with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. Carney and others repeatedly say that "intense negotiations" are underway, but Canadians and Quebeckers are none the wiser.
One of the most treacherous aspects of the Carney government's agenda is its consideration that Canada join the Trump administration's "Golden Dome" missile defence program. Defence Minister David McGuinty told the U.S.-Canada summit held in Toronto on October 8 that he had been authorized by Prime Minister Carney to discuss every kind of missile defence with the U.S.
Any Canadian involvement in U.S. missile defence has long been opposed by the people because of all the threats it poses to peace, security, sovereignty and more. Yet once again, in the name of Canada appeasing the Trump administration on economic and security matters, the anti-war convictions of Canadians and Quebeckers are simply dismissed.
Carney has indicated that
discussions were taking place on reviving the Keystone XL
pipeline to ship more oil from Alberta to the U.S. He also did
not rule out another pipeline from Alberta to the west coast,
indicating that it was possible if there was a viable corporate
sponsor, and what he called "Indigenous buy-in" and measures to
protect the climate. It is hard to take these latter two
conditions as anything but disingenuous, given that bypassing
consent from Indigenous Peoples and criminalizing their just
defence of their treaty and hereditary rights on behalf of the
monopolies has been the longstanding default position of the
Canadian state. The bypassing of Indigenous Peoples' right to
consent has even been enshrined in Bill C-5, the Building
Canada Act, to the outrage of people from coast to coast
to coast.
Also up for reconsideration are lifting the cap on industrial emissions and ending the tanker ban on the west coast to satisfy the oil monopolies and their spokespersons in the Alberta government and the Major Projects Office.
This article was published in
Volume 55
Number 10 - October 2025
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmlm2025/Articles/M550102.HTM
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