Elbows Up Fear Factory wants you to think Trump will invade Canada, arrest Carney...
Believing this requires you to ignore reality and look past a slew of differences.
The Globe and Mail is warning us that we need to prepare for an American invasion, CTV says Canada needs to know that sovereignty means nothing anymore and surely CBC has broadcast or published something along those lines. This is a return of the Elbows Up Fear Factory that went into overdrive last year and helped Mark Carney win the election.
Remember that election, the one where Carney said Trump wants to break us so that he can own us? The one where Carney said that only he could deliver a deal with Trump to protect Canada and that his opponent, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, would kneel before Trump.
Well, since then Mark Carney has groveled before Trump at the White House and at the G7 in Kananaskis and yet has failed to get a deal. Despite Carney claiming in a year end interview that our relationship with the United States had improved over 2025, the truth is tariffs increased on auto, lumber, aluminum, steel and other products and trade negotiations were called off.
Liberal polling isn’t great, call in the Fear Factory…
Carney’s polling numbers aren’t doing well. He and his Liberal party are effectively tied with Poilievre and the Conservatives in the polls so now we have the Elbows Up Fear Factory redeployed to make people scared that Donald Trump will invade Canada after he had Venezuelan Leader Nicolas Maduro arrested.
“We need to prepare for the possibility that the U.S. uses military coercion against Canada,” reads the headline on an opinion piece by Thomas Homer-Dixon and Adam Gordon in The Globe and Mail.
The pair paint a scenario where a referendum on Alberta separation, fueled by MAGA money, fails with just 30% supporting but the proponents claim it was rigged and that the separatists really got more than 50% of the vote.
“Alberta separatists then appeal to the U.S. for help, claiming various kinds of oppression. The U.S. moves troops to the northern Montana border and tells the rest of Canada that Alberta must be allowed to join America as the “51st state,” the pair write.
Given this little nugget in their piece, I wonder if they believe Maduro won fair and square.
Meanwhile in CTV political analyst Eric Ham says that what Trump did in Venezuela was a warning shot for Canada.
“Canada, like Greenland, is just too attractive in the eyes of an aging, imbecilic ruler ignorant to reality and even less moored by norms and standards,” Ham wrote.
Left-wing nonsense masquerading as intelligent analysis…
What all of these left-wing commentators – Ham is a Democrat based in Washington, D.C., Gordon is a former advisor to the Liberal government and Homer-Dixon is clearly on the left – what they fail to take into account is that there is a world of difference between Canada and Venezuela, between Mark Carney and Nicolas Maduro.
It’s not just airheads on social media failing to see the difference between the situations; it’s people who are supposed to be level-headed analysts.
So, let’s break it down for them.
