For the week of Jan. 18, 2026:
Less than a year after Mark Carney deemed China to be Canada’s biggest security threat, Carney was in Beijing to declare China to be Canada’s “strategic partner.”
“It speaks to that lack of concern for our relationship with the United States, our own internal security,” said Dennis Molinaro, this week’s guest on thePodcast. “Thinking that we can partner with a country like China and forego all those security concerns in favour of business. As though somehow business and trade will solve all our issues — it won’t.”
Dennis Molinaro is the author of “Under Assault: Interference and Espionage in China’s Secret War Against Canada” (Random House) and he explains to host Bob Mackin why Canadians should be alarmed by Carney’s pivot, which was timed for just before the anniversary of Donald Trump’s turbulent return to the White House.
Plus Pacific Rim and Pacific Northwest headlines.
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