PJ The Belt - May 19, 2026


“NO LONGER OUR ALLY” — Trump CUTS Canada Out of Military Alliance

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A new stress point has emerged in the Canada-U.S. relationship. The Trump administration is walking away from a long-standing military board that works on defense initiatives with Canada, claiming Canada has failed to meet its commitments. The CBC's Aaron Collins is on this story for us from Washington.

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00:00:00.000 And it would also be much better for national security. Don't forget, we basically protect
00:00:03.800 Canada. But here's the problem with Canada. We're spending hundreds of billions a year to protect
00:00:09.140 it. We're spending hundreds of billions a year to take care of Canada. The United States is not
00:00:14.320 interested in negotiating with Canada anymore. They're moving on and no longer view this country
00:00:19.480 as the ally it once was. Really an unprecedented situation where the two countries barely speak
00:00:25.220 to each other, let alone negotiate a deal. Let's get into the video. Well, a new stress point has
00:00:30.800 emerged in the Canada-U.S. relationship. The Trump administration walking away from a long-standing
00:00:36.060 military board that works on defense initiatives with Canada, claiming this country has failed to
00:00:41.640 meet its spending commitments. The CBC's Aaron Collins is on this story for us from Washington.
00:00:47.840 Aaron, good to have you. So what more do we know about what's happening here?
00:00:50.960 uh well we know right that this all involves that permanent joint board of defense and i think the
00:00:58.780 first question most journalists uh in dc and ottawa on this story might have been trying to
00:01:03.900 ascertain today is what the heck that is right scrambling to answer that right now and i think
00:01:08.220 the short answer to that is that it's a group created way back in 1940 that's really as you
00:01:14.060 mentioned focused on coordinating north american defense was actually created by some real political
00:01:19.560 heavyweights back in the day, right? Prime Minister Mackenzie King and U.S. President
00:01:23.100 Franklin Roosevelt behind the creation of this board. And while you may not have heard too much
00:01:29.160 about it over the years, it's seen Americans and Canadians working together to secure the
00:01:34.300 continent. One of the best examples that you can come up with for this is, of course, NORAD,
00:01:39.800 the North American Aerospace Defense Command, which was, you know, it's been monitoring the
00:01:43.900 airspace above Canada and the U.S. for like 70 years now. So a real good concrete example of
00:01:48.740 how this board has worked together uh to to to work on continental defense so this is where things
00:01:55.480 are heading now the united states just walked away from a military alliance with canada that's
00:02:01.860 been around since 1940 think about how insane that is this thing survived world wars a cold war
00:02:10.140 all kinds of global chaos and now america walks away under mark harney that should tell you
00:02:17.220 everything because trump's people are basically saying we don't trust canada anymore that's the
00:02:24.660 message and honestly can you even blame them at this point you've got carney talking about a new
00:02:31.240 world order ottawa causing up to china and endless lectures about globalism while canada's military
00:02:39.000 keeps falling apart now the americans are looking north and going why do we even care about this
00:02:45.620 relationship. That's what this is truly about. Not diplomacy, not paperwork, trust. And I think
00:02:53.520 that trust is collapsing fast. The days of our military sending 70 cents of every dollars to
00:03:02.600 the United States are over. The progress that we have made in the partnership sets us up well
00:03:13.520 for the new world order our old relationship with the United States a
00:03:22.120 relationship based on steadily increasing integration is over we
00:03:27.760 recognize that the relationship that Canada has had with the United States
00:03:34.240 one that for more than 40 years has been based on steadily deepening
00:03:40.580 integration is over. From free trade deal through to KUSMA, deepening integration in
00:03:48.780 military aspects. And that process of deepening integration is over.
00:03:54.800 And the part that should really worry Canadians is how humiliating this is becoming internationally.
00:04:01.420 Because this wasn't some random little committee. This was one of the main symbols of the Canada-U.S.
00:04:07.680 military relationship north american defense norad security coordination the kind of relationship
00:04:16.020 countries only get when they're true allies and now the trump administration is walking away
00:04:22.340 while openly accusing canada of failing its defense commitments that's brutal remember all 0.96
00:04:29.840 the anti-trump rhetoric the moral grandstanding the davos speech the whole new world order garbage
00:04:37.320 Well, now reality kicks in. This is the F.O. to Canada's F.A., because the United States is basically saying if Canada wants to drift towards Europe, China and globalist institutions, then America may stop treating Canada like an ally altogether.
00:04:56.340 One of the big questions then is, why is the United States pulling out?
00:04:59.680 This clearly is sort of, as you've talked about, sort of how far this goes back,
00:05:03.500 steeped in history in terms of that relationship between Canada and the United States.
00:05:07.080 But why is the U.S. saying they're out?
00:05:09.980 Well, that's the big question for sure, right?
00:05:11.860 And then the problem with trying to answer those questions when these kinds of policy,
00:05:15.320 you know, statements are rolled out on social media is you don't always have immediate recourse
00:05:20.300 to those questions.
00:05:21.780 We have reached out to the Department of Defense, Department of War down here,
00:05:25.120 I haven't received a whole lot of details from them.
00:05:28.480 And just a reminder that all of this is coming after Undersecretary of War Elbridge Colby posted on social media
00:05:35.320 that unfortunately, Canada has failed to make credible progress on its defense commitments.
00:05:40.300 DOW is pausing the permanent Joint Board of Defense to reassess how this forum benefits shared North American defense.
00:05:47.960 We can no longer avoid the gaps between rhetoric and reality.
00:05:50.540 Real powers must sustain our rhetoric with shared defense and security responsibility.
00:05:55.820 So why would the U.S. take that position now?
00:05:57.980 Look, you know, it's difficult to say with any degree of certainty.
00:06:00.700 We can speculate a little bit.
00:06:02.680 But there have been tensions, as you mentioned earlier, between the U.S. and Canada in the area of defense recently.
00:06:08.620 I mean, specifically, the Trump administration has long been bothered by NATO countries, including Canada, of not hitting their spending commitments of 2 percent of GDP, which I should say Canada has recently met.
00:06:19.780 But obviously the U.S. would like our country to spend even more than that.
00:06:23.780 Other things going on right now, there's a review of Canada's purchase of F-35 fighters.
00:06:28.640 That could be an irritant for this administration.
00:06:30.980 Of course, there's that Davos speech from the prime minister where he said there was a rupture in the global order, which is an irritant as well. 0.57
00:06:39.300 Keep a close eye, of course, on what's going to be happening later on in the summer with the Kusma deal as well and where that stands.
00:06:45.020 And so all of it sort of, I feel kind of, you know, related to one another in terms of where things are happening in terms of that relationship.
00:06:51.400 But here's the bigger story nobody in the media wants to talk about.
00:06:55.180 This is not just about military spending.
00:06:57.260 This is about Canada's entire direction as a country.
00:07:01.680 Because under this liberal government, Canada stopped acting like a confident Western ally.
00:07:07.000 Instead, everything became about global conferences, carbon targets, virtue signaling and international approval.
00:07:14.300 While our economy weakens, our military is weaker than ever, and our relationship with the United States starts breaking apart.
00:07:22.980 And the Trump administration is done pretending otherwise.
00:07:26.680 That's why this move matters so much.
00:07:29.840 Because once America starts treating Canada like an unreliable partner, everything can spiral very quickly.
00:07:37.240 Trade agreements, intelligence sharing, defense cooperation, border security, you name it.
00:07:43.480 All of that suddenly becomes negotiable. And I honestly think a lot of Canadians still don't understand how serious this is, because for the first time in a very long time, America is starting to publicly act like Canada is no longer a real ally.
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