Canada is now facing the danger of American misinformation
2025/02/14 Leave a comment
Indeed. Equally pernicious and Canadians are more vulnerable given US traditional and social media as more bend to Trump/Musk:
…Any effort to cower Canada into submission will undoubtedly include efforts to sow distrust among Canadians through misinformation and to try to influence our political elites – as the NSICOP report suggested our enemies are already trying to do. The main guardrail that has protected the U.S.-Canada security relationship is being removed before our very eyes, which is that the bureaucrats and military officials who understood the need for protecting the relationship are being silenced or removed and replaced with individuals whose only qualification is loyalty to the current President. Furthermore, the key advisers that Mr. Trump has surrounded himself with, including Mr. Musk, have already shown a ruthlessness and cunning when it comes to using misinformation campaigns to gain what Mr. Trump wants, largely via his X platform.
The Hogue Report and what has been reported by the NSICOP suggest that we should already expect efforts by our adversaries to sow distrust from the public toward our political leaders, which will have the added side effect of weakening our leaders’ abilities to respond to American efforts to destabilize Canada.
We can also expect these efforts to try to divide Canadian society. Complicating all of this will be the realization that the five adversarial states identified by the Hogue report will also see the opportunity to bandwagon on any American efforts to sow further distrust between Canada and the United States.
One of the saddest ironies to be made apparent by Mr. Trump’s moves against Canada, is that those who stand to gain the most from such actions are those states trying to weaken both Canada and the United States. A divided North America is ultimately a weakened North America, and this is very much in the interest of our adversaries.
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