By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information
Mark Carney’s announcement that Canada will “Trump-proof” itself is not merely a policy shift—it’s a strategic signal. It reveals the internal crisis of the liberal settler state in North America. The fantasy that Canada could indefinitely tether its sovereignty to the United States without suffering the consequences of imperial decay has now collapsed. Trump’s return has only accelerated the reckoning.
The plan—$30.9 billion in new defense spending, Arctic militarization, interprovincial economic reforms, and a recommitment to NATO targets—is not about protecting democracy. It is about insulating the Canadian ruling class from the instability of U.S. technofascism without confronting the deeper foundations of empire that both states share. This is not a rupture. It is a recalibration of the settler project.
A Strategic Class Response
Carney is not reacting to Trump’s personality—he is responding to structural turbulence. As a former central banker and WEF trustee, Carney represents a particular faction of capital: liberal, technocratic, and transnational. His fear is not of Trump per se, but of what Trumpism signifies—the collapse of the post–Cold War consensus that underwrote Canadian integration into the U.S.-dominated order.
The economic logic of Carney’s “resilience plan” is to maintain investor confidence while shifting the burden of global volatility onto the working class. Budget balance by 2028. Targeted industrial subsidies. Interprovincial trade harmonization. In other words, a leaner state that retains its capacity to serve capital in a more chaotic world. There is no redistributive agenda. No serious proposal to democratize wealth. No reckoning with fossil capital or corporate consolidation. Just technocratic discipline.
Militarizing the Arctic: Expansion by Other Means
The most telling feature of the plan is the Arctic buildup. Submarines, drones, radar installations, and hardened infrastructure across the North. Officially, it’s about countering Russia and preparing for Chinese influence. In reality, it is the extension of settler colonial control over Indigenous territories under the new conditions of climate change and resource competition.
As the polar ice melts, the Arctic is transforming from periphery to core. What was once treated as empty space is now a contested zone of shipping routes, oil deposits, and rare earth minerals. Canada’s military investments are not defensive—they are extractive. The language of sovereignty masks an intensification of colonial occupation in the name of “national security.”
What “Trump-Proofing” Actually Protects
Carney’s initiative is not designed to protect the Canadian public. It is designed to safeguard capital flows, protect strategic infrastructure, and project stability to global markets. The state is not preparing for the collapse of empire by redistributing resources or returning land—it is preparing to fortify itself against the social consequences of that collapse.
By investing in defense and market confidence while tightening public spending, the Canadian elite is signaling its priorities. The poor, the displaced, the unhoused, and the colonized are not part of the strategic calculus. They are, at best, externalities. At worst, threats to be managed.
Conclusion: Settler Liberalism in Crisis
The idea of a benevolent, democratic Canada—multicultural, rational, immune to American degeneration—was always a myth. But now that myth is visibly falling apart. Carney’s plan to “Trump-proof” the nation is not a plan for liberation. It is a plan to salvage settler sovereignty in the face of imperial breakdown. It is an elite response to a system in crisis—one that preserves hierarchy, maintains colonial control, and avoids structural transformation.
What we are witnessing is not the protection of democracy. It is the fortification of empire—this time with a green badge, a balanced budget, and a warship in the Arctic.
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