Mark Carney’s Anti-American Crusade

The nonsensical “Carney Doctrine” risks crippling Canada’s economy while strengthening China and exposing the contradictions behind his trade war with the United States.

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by Victor Davis Hanson
September 17, 2026

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney now believes he is more than just the Western foil to Donald Trump and his MAGA movement — he is the global one. Accordingly, he seems determined to demonstrate to the world how to stand up to Donald Trump, to force Trump to lose the midterms, and to hurt the U.S. economy to such a degree that Trump will never again bully other nations.

How he believes he has such awesome power is altogether unclear.

So, at the eleventh hour, Carney stormed out of an apparently completed tariff deal with the United States that would have privileged Canada over almost all of America’s other trading partners. Canada, we recall, has enjoyed a $50 billion goods trade surplus with the United States for years in a supposedly free and equitable North American trade zone.