Canada just shocked the world by cutting all economic and strategic ties with the United States — but what they didn’t expect is how prepared Trump really was.

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(00:00) right in the heart of the US capital a sudden diplomatic shockwave hits canada announces a complete severance of ties with the United States no warning no agreement no way out in Washington DC alarms blare inside the situation room senior national security advisers gather in silence and in a private office at Mara Lago Donald Trump utters just one sentence it’s time to most observers this appears to be a reckless move by Mark Carney Canada’s newly appointed prime minister but to Trump it’s the final play he’s been waiting for carney
(00:39) believes he’s taking a stand in reality he’s walked straight into a trap Trump began laying 3 years ago through every agreement every supply chain every border and now as Canada lights the match and burns the bridge Trump doesn’t step in to save them he watches he tightens his grip and he witnesses an entire nation collapse from the very heart of the United States don’t forget to subscribe to the channel it’s the only way I can keep sharing these inspiring stories with you and trust me you won’t want to miss what’s coming
(01:13) next tuesday 2:00 p.m eastern time while the crowd outside the Capitol buzzed with confusion a screen at the National Intelligence Center in Washington DC lit up with the words live Ottawa a young analyst turned on the audio and slowly glanced back at the group of advisers behind him as if checking whether they were truly ready to hear the unthinkable mark Carney Canada’s new prime minister stood behind a mahogany podium bearing the National Code of Arms his face was expressionless his voice steady like someone reading a death notice and in
(01:48) just 7 minutes he did something unprecedented in the history of the two nations he ended all strategic military and economic ties with the United States immediately unconditionally and without negotiation no higing no diplomacy no warning just a cold declaration dropped on Washington like a ticking bomb the first reaction was silence in the Oval Office no one said a word for 10 seconds then came the scraping of chairs phones lighting up and curses whispered like daggers he’s out of his mind but Trump was different watching from his office
(02:26) at Mara Lago he simply nodded not surprised he had seen this coming since 2021 when Carney stepped down from the Bank of England and began showing up at closed- dooror meetings at Davos the IMF and the World Economic Forum classified NSA reports had documented Carney’s meetings with three European-based investment groups where discussions centered around restructuring North American trade in a post-Trump era 77% of Canada’s exports from lumber and oil to agriculture and steel flow into the United States meanwhile US exports to
(03:03) Canada account for less than 18% from the start of his presidency Trump had recognized this imbalance as a strategic vulnerability and he prepared over the past two years he renegotiated energy deals with Brazil expanded logistics ties with Mexico and fast-tracked funding for domestic manufacturing recovery programs in Texas and Ohio the moment Carney made his announcement those plans shifted from ready to immediate deployment in Blaine Washington a long line of container trucks began turning back at Sweetgrass
(03:38) Montana Border Patrol presence doubled and in factories across Detroit executives quietly received a directive supply chain shift prioritize domestic and Mexican sources carney thought he had just shaken the world but what he didn’t realize was that Trump had laid the trap 3 years earlier and Canada had just pulled the trigger in Washington the question now wasn’t how do we respond it was how far do we let him burn there was no press conference no rebuttal statement not a single tweet from any official account a day after
(04:14) Ottawa’s shocking announcement the White House remained silent as if nothing had happened but inside things were moving faster than ever this was a war without gunfire with a counterattack came through memos internal directives and a few quiet clicks authorizing covert deployments at the Strategic Economic Coordination Center buried deep beneath the western wing of the White House Trump’s advisers gathered one final time to confirm Northstar Contingency the Northern Border Crisis Response Plan was now fully active no longer a backup it
(04:49) was now the primary weapon the president didn’t call for retaliation he didn’t need to trump’s counter strike wasn’t about attacking it was about withdrawal pulling contracts pulling credit pulling demand the very thing Canada’s economy depended on for every breath less than 48 hours after Carney’s announcement the US Department of Commerce cancelled 12 lumber orders worth nearly $900 million all originating from Quebec within the same week the Department of Energy activated alternative oil agreements with Venezuela something previous
(05:25) administrations had sanctioned refineries in Texas quietly funded by Trump since early in the year ramped up to full capacity food distribution companies in Illinois and Ohio were instructed to halt negotiations with Canadian suppliers and pivot to Brazil and Argentina no media fanfare just brief cold and decisive emails at the Pentagon the order to cut joint intelligence support with Canada was signed without any public disclosure radar stations monitoring the North Atlantic were now operating independently norad the joint air
(06:02) defense system was placed under unilateral control from a strategic standpoint the US still protected North America but it would no longer share that protection with Ottawa trump monitored it all from his screen charts of energy supply graphs of agricultural prices stock trends for Canadian mining giants each one a piece he had moved in advance in a closed door meeting with six key business leaders in Washington he said just one thing no one attacks America without consequences but I’ll let them feel those consequences first
(06:36) and sure enough as the market spoke in place of the White House Canada began to feel it hour by hour day by day wave after wave of unannounced capital withdrawal just four days after the severance announcement central districts of Toronto had already slipped into mild chaos something state media still tried to label as temporary adjustments but ordinary citizens saw it for what it was in North York beef prices spiked by 21% milk and cereal jumped by 50% gas stations in Burnaby began limiting fuel per customer the already fragile supply
(07:14) chain was now fracturing link by link but what frightened people most wasn’t the price hikes it was the eerie silence from their government mark Carney continued to appear on television calm cold reciting scripted lines we anticipated this but the words rang hollow he didn’t answer questions he avoided American media and when asked about trade disruptions his only reply was “We’re diversifying our markets.
(07:43) ” Diversifying where no one knew shipments of food and components intended for Europe were stuck in Rotterdam due to a lack of import contracts china refused Canadian lumber citing over supply india demanded uranium in exchange for agricultural goods every answer was a polite rejection for a country that no longer held any leverage in Fort McMurray the three largest oil fields began laying off engineers highway 63 the lifeline into the extraction zone grew quiet canadian domestic oil prices fell 34% because no one was buying
(08:22) within just 3 days of Trump’s decision US refineries had fully switched to South American partners factories across Ontario producing everything from automobiles and electronics to fertilizer began cutting hours over 23,000 workers were furoughed in the first week alone meanwhile the Toronto Stock Exchange plunged nearly 3,000 points the Canadian dollar hit a record low of 1.
(08:52) 58 to the US dollar investment funds began pulling out capital at a rate not seen since the 2008 financial crisis then on Saturday night protests broke out in Vancouver it started with 500 people gathering outside the provincial legislature then quickly spilled into the surrounding square signs read “Not for Trump not for America we stand against stupidity.
(09:17) ” One elderly woman holding a microphone with tears in her eyes said “I don’t hate America i just hate the feeling of being sold out by my own leader.” At that very moment Mark Carney was having dinner in a private conference room in Ottawa with three European investment CEOs who had just acquired 17% of Canada’s national railway company no one at that dinner asked what the people were thinking and Carney didn’t care to know because in his mind Canada had already gone too far to turn back while the world attention
(09:49) remained fixed on the economic crisis something else was unfolding in Blaine Washington a border checkpoint once seen as a symbol of U.S.Canada friendship us Border Patrol agents were now facing a very different kind of threat a surge in narcotics firearms and illegal crossings in the two weeks following Mark Carney severance announcement the volume of contraband seized at the northern border rose nearly 340% compared to the same period the year before even more alarming joint intelligence feeds once shared between the US and Canada through
(10:26) NORAD and broader North American security agreements were no longer accessible carney had shut down all intelligence exchange as part of his so-called strategic reorientation and the consequences of that decision became immediately visible in Sweetg Grass Montana DEA agents uncovered a new fentinel trafficking route originating in British Columbia and snaking through the forested borderlands into Idaho the operation had been running quietly for months but was previously kept in check by information from Canadian authorities
(11:00) now there was nothing internal reports revealed that in 2023 alone over 50 tons of fentanyl enough to kill millions had entered the US through the northern route that figure surpassed even the Mexican borders total in the first quarter of the year from Mara Lago Trump issued a direct order triple the number of patrol units along the northern border and deploy highfrequency electronic surveillance and militarygrade drones across the Forest corridor no need for Congress no press release just a brief memo signed at 2:00
(11:36) a.m secure the northern border immediately no permission required meanwhile Canadian media outlets avoided the topic those who dared to ask questions were branded anti-government agitators an independent investigative journalist in Winnipeg was blocked from accessing border related documents a local police officer speaking anonymously by phone said “We’ve lost control over here and the criminals know it.
(12:05) ” When pressed about border security in a public briefing Mark Carney simply shrugged we no longer consider the US a strategic partner we will handle our internal matters independently back in Washington DC during an emergency security meeting one officer summed it up in a single sentence they’ve left the back door open and we’re the ones who have to lock it trump said nothing he simply held a report detailing overdose deaths in Ohio where 43 people had just died from fentinel in one week his grip tightened on the page no words were needed the border war had officially
(12:42) begun by the third week after the severance announcement it wasn’t gas prices or the falling Canadian dollar that kept Carney’s government awake at night it was the growing silence within his own ranks the Minister of Industry requested leave for personal reasons the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs stopped showing up to cabinet meetings and on day 23 the Finance Minister officially resigned with a brief letter of just eight words “I can’t support the current direction anymore.
(13:12) ” Mainstream media tried to control the narrative but social media didn’t leaked internal interviews began to surface in one a senior adviser admitted Carney is running the country like an investment fund no one here knows what tomorrow looks like meanwhile in Calgary and Toronto Canada’s top corporations issued a joint ultimatum if trade channels with the US weren’t reopened within 30 days they would relocate operations entirely to neighboring US states starting with Ohio and Michigan mining giant in globe laid off 40% of its workforce air Canada
(13:50) canled all planned international route expansions governmentbacked bank stocks went into freefall under mounting pressure Carney maintained his signature cold demeanor in a hastily arranged press conference in Ottawa he declared “We cannot retreat just because the markets panic this is the moment for Canada to prove its independence.
(14:12) ” But behind him backstage many were already falling apart liberal Party members began holding private group meetings not to devise a response but to plan their own exit strategies meanwhile in Washington DC Trump remained silent but his strategy team saw the writing on the wall carney was self-destructing and the fire was starting to spread inward an internal memo from the US State Department noted “The ruling party in Canada is fragmenting rapidly if this trajectory continues cabinet collapse within 60 days is highly likely.” At the
(14:49) provincial level open defiance began to surface alberta announced plans to negotiate a separate energy deal with the US in direct defiance of federal orders from Ottawa quebec quietly reopened diplomatic channels with Vermont and New York carney still sat in the prime minister’s chair but that chair was now propped up by little more than pride while the structural pillars around him were splintering piece by piece and in Toronto once the economic heart of the nation graffiti began to appear on the walls of shuttered banks
(15:23) this was no longer a series of scattered protests no longer a few hundred people waving signs downtown it was thousands of farmers truckers and forestry workers from Manitoba to Alberta who collectively stopped paying taxes and shut down entire sectors they weren’t demanding negotiations with the US they weren’t chanting Trump’s name they simply declared “We don’t work for a government that no longer represents our interests.
(15:51) ” In the agricultural heartland of Saskatchewan hundreds of grain trucks lined up at the border unable to export drivers lit torches along the highway and held signs that read “They closed the border we’re closing our wallets.” In British Columbia lumber workers set up protest camps outside provincial government offices flying red flags marked with a bold X symbolizing the first organized resistance under the name Reclaim North mark Carney responded with what he believed was firm and necessary action he signed orders freezing protest
(16:25) related financial accounts revoked access to digital banking and instructed federal police to clear demonstration sites but what he didn’t expect was the people’s resolve the more pressure they faced the more they stood their ground footage of Canadian police officers using batons and tear gas on protesters spread across global social media the hashtag carney crackdown shot to the top three worldwide trends hundreds of anonymous accounts emerge to share tactics reroute supply chains and even print internal currencies for resistance
(17:02) groups locked out of the banking system meanwhile in Washington DC Trump still said nothing publicly but in a closed door meeting with business leaders he simply smiled when asked about Canada’s situation i don’t need to say a word people know what to do when the pain gets real enough and they did each passing day didn’t weaken the movement it amplified it rural shops began refusing to collect federal taxes local mayors announced they would no longer enforce directives from Ottawa carney was no longer leading a nation he was
(17:35) managing a society in collapse where the government was now seen as an occupying force on its own soil in Calgary’s central square beneath a flurry of snow a silent crowd stood shoulder-to-shoulder thousands raised wooden placards with just one word enough on day 45 since the severance declaration a Canadian diplomatic convoy entered Washington DC in silence no media coverage no press entourage the mission had a single goal to request renegotiation but the US already knew and had made its decision no meeting
(18:13) carney’s delegation included three deputy ministers a veteran negotiator and a representative from a state-owned enterprise they submitted a letter requesting the reopening of trade talks and the restoration of food and fuel supply chains but at the US Department of Commerce they weren’t even listed on the official guest registry the only response came from staff assistant washington no longer has trade plans with Ottawa at the White House Trump was briefed in a closed-d dooror meeting he nodded without emotion then turned to
(18:45) his economic adviser and asked one simple question are the contracts with Brazil stabilized the answer confirmed replacement lumber from the Amazon was already flowing mexico had filled the fertilizer gap energy plants in Ohio had ramped up production in June everything Canada once provided had already been replaced not as a threat as a fact at the same time the US Congress passed a bipartisan resolution no new agreements with the Carney administration until a new government is in place the vote was overwhelming 417 in favor 18 opposed
(19:24) even the most moderate voices had run out of patience in financial circles the reaction was even colder three of the world’s five largest banks announced full divestment from Canadian markets the Canadian dollar hit a new low 1.71 to the US dollar fitch Moody’s and SNP all downgraded Canada’s credit rating to control junk in Ottawa Carney held a late night press conference his face was pale his hands slightly trembling struggling to maintain composure he declared Canada would stand firm in defense of national independence but
(20:03) behind him his cabinet had collapsed not a single minister stood at his side trump didn’t need to appear he knew Canada didn’t need to be attacked just left behind and that was the harshest punishment a superpower could inflict on its rival total indifference on day 61 the Canadian cabinet officially dissolved a swift no confidence vote in parliament took less than two hours mark Carney disappeared from public view shortly after signing his resignation he left Parliament alone without escort without farewell just as he had broken
(20:39) ties with the United States cold solitary and without explanation a provisional government was formed with a single mission to appeal to the United States a new delegation was immediately dispatched to Washington but this time they brought no proposals only an apology and what they received was silence at the White House no one took the meeting trump offered no reaction no tweets no stuck mints he didn’t need to underline a victory because the victory had already been sealed by reality america remained unmoved supply chains
(21:16) were stable the US economy continued to grow unemployment held at record lows meanwhile to the north Canada sank into recession gdp plunged 8.3% over 400,000 jobs vanished in just 60 days and business bankruptcies surged by 312% major cities plunged into political darkness in Toronto the subway system shut down due to lack of operational funding in Vancouver gas stations began rationing by the day in Calgary citizens lined up for food aid from religious charities something unseen since the World Wars but the heaviest blow wasn’t
(21:58) the economic collapse it was the profound loss of trust in government people no longer cared who was prime minister they had only one question left why did we lose everything just to prove we hated Trump meanwhile in the US the evening news carried the latest headline canada continues to spiral through unprecedented crisis the US government declines to comment the camera panned briefly to Mara Lago where Trump stood on the lawn holding a new energy map around him were policy architects not scrambling to fix a crisis but calmly
(22:36) preparing the next strategy and just like that it ended a nation once proud of its sovereignty had lost everything in a misguided game of political spite they thought opposing Trump meant challenging a man but in truth they had challenged a system a strategy and a nation that had prepared far in advance in America it never looked back it just moved forward leaving Canada in the dying echo of its own mistaken choice the September wind swept through the empty boulevards of Ottawa the Canadian flag still flew high but for the first
(23:12) time in decades people no longer looked at it with pride but with doubt in a worn out cafes of the capital the question was no longer “When will the government restore relations with the US?” It was “How much have we lost and is there anything left to save?” A few provinces were quietly considering secession new political movements began to rise from the rubble of the old system but more importantly the people had awakened they no longer believed blindly in slogans no longer assumed freedom was a permanent fixture they
(23:46) understood now sometimes the threat to sovereignty doesn’t come from outside but from the very leaders they elect to the south the American machine kept turning no one spoke of the severance anymore to them it was just a brief chapter in the long story of global order but for Canada it remained an open wound and the real question now wasn’t in Washington it wasn’t about Trump it land the next vote they cast don’t forget to subscribe to the channel it’s the only way I can keep sharing these inspiring stories with you and trust me
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