President Donald Trump is sharing a word of caution with America’s neighbor to the north.
He took to Truth Social to share a warning with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney over letting the country turn into a “drop-off port” for China, threatening to slap the country with tariffs if it makes an ill-advised deal.
Look:
.@MarkJCarney pic.twitter.com/KcX5Juj14h
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 24, 2026
“If Governor Carney thinks he is going to make Canada a ‘Drop Off Port’ for China to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken. China will eat Canada alive, completely devour it, including the destruction of their businesses, social fabric, and general way of life. If Canada makes a deal with China, it will immediately be hit with a 100% Tariff against all Canadian goods and products coming into the U.S.A. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT.” Trump wrote.
Attached to the post was a link to a Just The News article about the potential for a deal between China and Canada to backfire.
“Every day we’re reminded that we live in an era of great-power rivalry,” Carney said in a speech at Switzerland’s Davos resort town. “That the rules-based order is fading. That the strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must.”
“The middle powers must act together because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu,” he added later, calling on Canada and Europe to band together in the face of United States challenges under the Trump administration.
However, these declarations come after Carney’s international trip to Beijing, where he cozied up to the Communist leadership under the guise of a new “strategic partnership” that would allow the expansion of trade and mutual investment.
More from the article:
The Liberal Canadian politician made no secret of his purpose. The new deal, which represented Canada “recalibrating” its relationship with China, would set up the country for the “new world order,” one in which the United States’ ally would try to distance itself from its southern neighbor.
When Carney left Beijing, the new “strategic partnership” committed China and Canada to increase trade and investments as well as closer collaboration on the very “global governance” that Carney says President Trump has abandoned. The two countries also promised close cooperation on law enforcement — focusing on drug trafficking and cybercrime — and to increase cultural exchanges.
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But this effort to stick it to Trump backfired back home.
“Prime Minister Carney’s trip to Beijing makes no sense,” said Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation Brent Sadler in a statement to the outlet. “It might feel good at the moment to try to stick his finger in what he thinks is President Trump’s eye. The reality is he went to a country of an authoritarian communist regime that doesn’t acknowledge or respect religious freedoms, personal rights to freedom of speech. They have a social credit system that you get judged on every day in access to services, let alone medical services and everything else.”
“It’s everything that’s antithetical to what the Canadian people seem to think and embrace in a liberal society. Makes no sense.”
Additionally, this move puts Carney and Canada in allyship with a country that, in 2022, was found by the United Nations to be responsible for “serious human rights violations” against Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
“The report notes that the Chinese government referred Uyghur citizens to so-called ‘Vocational Education and Training Centres’ without legal basis where they are subjected to forced labor. Many former detainees have testified to torture in these facilities, including forced medical procedures and beatings, the report noted,” Just the News reported.
International law also isn’t a big concern to China, historically.
“In 2016, an international court ruled in favor of the Philippines, which had accused China three years earlier of encroaching on maritime rights in the South China Sea, where Beijing had laid claim to several outcroppings and had begun to militarize them,” the outlet noted. “Despite the court ruling that China had violated the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, of which it is a signatory, its leadership said it would not recognize the judgment.”
Is it worth throwing your lot in with a country like this just to get a potential one-up on Trump? Only time will tell if Carney believes so.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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