Like the rest of the world, Canada is watching the 2024 US presidential election with bated breath, drinking a can of Molson Canadian and munching on poutine in the process. The Liberal government appears to believe its own state-funded media’s propaganda about the United States potentially metastasizing into a far-right authoritarian dystopia should a certain Republican regain the keys to the White House. The irony is that Ottawa has been dismissing its own use of the iron fist over the last few years.
Canada Is Watching America
In an Aug. 17 French radio interview in Montreal, Quebec, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly revealed that the federal government has a “game plan” for how Ottawa would respond if next year’s presidential election results in a far-right and authoritarian shift. “We are certainly working on scenarios,” the Liberal Member of Parliament and former…