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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's anti-U.S. vitriol has reached new heights after he suggested he has prepared for a possible military invasion by American forces. "I think you have a responsibility in these roles to look at extreme tail risk," Carney said recently. "That's just risk management. That's not a base case, but it would be irresponsible not to" prepare.
According to armedforces.eu, a military database, the United States Armed Forces have about 1,333,030 active-duty troops, while the Canadian Armed Forces have roughly 63,500 active personnel, and U.S. firepower vastly outguns that available to Canada.
Carney railed against new U.S. tariffs that went into place in the absence of a formal trade deal between the two countries.
"Progress has not been enough to meet our objectives for Canadians. As a result, this evening, I have decided to suspend trade negotiations with the U.S. and have directed Canada’s negotiators to return to Ottawa," he said in a statement in late August.
“In recent days, the United States proposed new terms that were uneconomic, unfair, and undermined the net benefits for Canada, and called into question the reliability of any deal. In short, they asked too much, and they offered too little,” Carney said during a press conference.
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