Canada Must Choose: The United States Is Our Ally, or We Are China’s Trojan Horse

There’s been a ton of discussion about Carney’s scheduled trip to China, so we asked AI what it thought. Here are some of the things it came up with…. and it’s eye-opening. I’ve summarized some of it below but with brevity in mind; it doesn’t even capture how deep of a problem we have.

With Prime Minister Mark Carney set to visit China from January 13–17, 2026 (his first official trip in that role and the first by a Canadian leader in over eight years) the timing couldn’t feel more fraught. Complicating matters further he’ll be accompanied by the controversial floor-crosser MP Michael Ma whose fresh off a December 2025 defection from the Conservatives. Carney’s scheduled visit was also preceded by former PM Jean Chrétien on January 5th where he met with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng; this “recalibration” of ties has raised serious questions. Add-in Carney’s Brookfield-era financial entanglements with Beijing, and the pattern looks less like prudent diversification and more like a risky gamble — one that could undermine human rights, national security, and our most critical alliance with the United States.

Source: Toronto Sun (April 8, 2025) — front page exposing CCP-linked WeChat campaign amplifying positive coverage of Carney during the 2025 election.

China’s Dark Shadow Over Our Recent Elections

Back in the 2025 campaign, Canada’s SITE task force uncovered a coordinated CCP-linked operation on WeChat. Through accounts like Youli-Youmian, it artificially boosted mostly favorable stories about Carney — racking up millions of views in Chinese-Canadian communities to shape perceptions. State media praised him as a “rockstar economist,” even as questions lingered about his Brookfield ties.

Brian Lilley put it bluntly in the Toronto Sun: “China isn’t done messing with our elections… a campaign with direct ties back to Beijing supporting (not targeting) Mark Carney.” This fits the broader pattern: China remains the top foreign interfere in Canada, per public inquiries. Yet here we are, with Carney heading to Beijing to expand relations.

Kovrig’s Warning

Michael Kovrig knows the cost of China’s repression firsthand, he spent over 1,000 days in detention. In his January 11, 2026, thread, he lays out the stakes: forced labor feeding global supply chains, 52 journalists behind bars, missing reporters like Minnie Chan, Hong Kong’s crackdown (Jimmy Lai facing life), Uyghur atrocities, Tibetan surveillance, secret executions of four Canadians, and drones shipped to Russia for use against Ukraine civilians. We urge you to read the entirety of his X thread.

China Secretly Executed Four Canadians. I Explain Why. How the Chinese Communist Party uses the death penalty for domestic intimidation and diplomatic leverage

— Michael Kovrig (@MichaelKovrig) January 11, 2026

Human Rights Watch has echoed the urgency: Carney must press on forced labor imports, transnational harassment of critics here in Canada, and the regime’s broader threats. Ignoring these for trade gains isn’t realism — it’s a dangerous concession.

Source: China Consulate

Brookfield’s Shadow: Money and Influence

Carney’s time as Brookfield chair left deep footprints in China: over $3 billion in politically sensitive assets, including Shanghai real estate deals tied to CCP-linked tycoon Vincent Lo (a CPPCC member). When China’s property market tanked, Brookfield still secured a $276 million refinancing loan from the state-owned Bank of China in late 2024.

Carney is compromised by the authoritarian regime in Beijing. His company owes the Chinese state-owned bank a quarter billion dollars…

— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) April 3, 2025

Even with a “blind trust” now in place, the optics — the potential leverage — are extremely hard to ignore.

Fentanyl Crisis: Precursors, Laundering, and U.S. Backlash

Canadians suffer the consequences.

Closer to home, Chinese precursors fuel Canada’s fentanyl epidemic, with triad networks laundering profits through banks like TD and BMO (TD was already hit with a $3.1B U.S. AML fine). Then there’s the 2024 Falkland B.C. superlab bust — capable of 95 million lethal doses — which involved Chinese shipments and U.S.-sanctioned entities. RCMP reluctance to cooperate with the DEA delayed action, contributing to American 35% tariffs on Canada.

Source: Vancouver Sun

Former U.S. official David Asher warns of “command-and-control” by Chinese triads operating in Canada — with CCP ties — risking further U.S. Treasury sanctions. This isn’t distant geopolitics; it’s lives lost and alliances strained.

Delegation Red Flags: Ma and Chrétien

MP Michael Ma’s floor-crossing and past with groups that minimized the “Two Michaels” detention — whose now escorting Carney to meet Xi — feels like a reward amid interference concerns. Questions are swirling whether Ma was a plant? On top of Chrétien’s “old friend” session with Han Zheng days earlier only deepens the sense that wheels are being greased for business over principle.

Source: CityNews Calgary

Something is rotten here… floor crosser Michael Ma gets to join Carney in China visit ⁉️

— proud albertan (@mutchluv) January 9, 2026

Source: Xinhua

Geopolitical Hypocrisy and the U.S. Risk

NATO warns of deepening China-Russia cooperation — yet Carney seeks expanded ties with Beijing, the key enabler of Russia’s war machine in Ukraine through drones and dual-use goods. And Canada continues to send billions in aide to Ukraine — What’s going on here?

NATO’s top military commander warned against Russia and China… So of course Mark Carney is going to CHINA to make trade deal. This is so INSANE.

— Melissa 🇨🇦 (@MelissaLMRogers) January 11, 2026

Tory MP Dean Allison captures what’s at stake: Carney is heading to China “to expand relations with a regime that commits massive human rights abuses, engages in industrial espionage… spies on our citizens, interferes in our elections, sets up secret police operations on Canadian soil.” Amid Trump tariffs and Arctic tensions, this approach risks turning Canada into a backdoor vulnerability for China — right on America’s northern border.

The potential risks are becoming gravely serious and must not be ignored. It’s not that we shouldn’t do any business with other countries, including China, but critics are right to be concerned as the Liberals have not been the most forthright or transparent govt. In-fact, they have been the most scandalous government in Canadian history. Therein lies the problem. And yes we know, it hasn’t been confined to just the Liberals, though they have been thought to be the most infiltrated, as their ideals – lack of morals, especially today, align more closely with the CCP. In the past much could be passed off for ignorance – today with the amount of information and surveillance we have, there’s absolutely no room for ignorance – they know – we know. And frankly put, as they’ve proven time and time again, we simply cannot trust the Liberals to ensure stringent checks and balances. We can’t even get justice here – our courts are a mess, and our immigration has run amok. That’s just some of our problems. They’ve had 10 years, it’s only gotten worse.

Conclusion

It’s extremely important we don’t fall asleep at the wheel here: Canada is facing real domestic threats — foreign interference, fentanyl superlabs, money laundering — that demand immediate, tough, “grown-up” attention before we deepen ties with the world’s leading authoritarian power. It’s not only about our wealth of resources at stake — think about it, what makes us critically important? — we are neighbours with the worlds superpower — and what’s the best way to infiltrate such a fortress — you betcha, a “Trojan Horse”.

China is Canada’s single greatest threat, Carney once said, even acknowledging they are a looming threat in the arctic. Yet now, with Carney’s China pivot, which I will argue there was no pivot at all — amidst allegations of foreign interference fresh on Canadian minds, what do you think he would say to get Elected? Like Elbows up, it was all fake – China has been on his agenda all along — layer that all in with financial baggage, election meddling, and humanitarian blind spots, it all amounts to threatening our values and our most essential partnership with our greatest ally. Mark my words, this PM is much more sinister and dangerous; we would be fools to think otherwise. It is urgent that we must choose: The United States or China, I cannot believe that’s even a question.

Sources: Toronto Sun (April 8, 2025), The Bureau (Falkland lab), ZeroHedge (Asher interview), Kovrig X thread, Epoch Times (Allison), HRW (Jan 9), Juno News, Poilievre X, Vancouver Sun, Xinhua.