Victor Davis Hanson: Canada Missed Out on a Huge Opportunity

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🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Canadian nationalism might have won the battle, but Trump will win the war. Earlier this week, newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, a liberal, voted the White House. Mark Carney ran a campaign emphasizing Canadian nationalism, which successfully won him the election. However, nothing will negate the undue stresses Canada’s NATO spending shortfalls and trade surplus have on its relationship with the U.S. Now, President Trump is taking him to task, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words:” 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1… 👉If you can’t get enough of Victor Davis Hanson from The Daily Signal, subscribe to his official YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/victordavishanson7273… 👉He’s also the host of “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” available wherever you prefer to watch or listen. Links to the show and exclusive content are available on his website: ≈ The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: https://secured.dailysignal.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who was newly elected, is visiting Washington.
0:34.6	He's been holding sessions with Donald Trump about the so-called trade war and about being at 51st state.
0:41.3	Donald Trump did not like Prime Minister Trudeau, who did not like Donald Trump.
0:45.3	He was so frustrated by the surpluses that Canada kept racking up that he would troll Canada.
0:51.3	And of course, Trudeau took that very seriously.
0:53.3	Then there was an election. Trudeau took that very seriously and then there was an election.
0:55.0	Trudeau was a failure.
0:57.0	Carney was the champion of Canadian nationalism.
1:00.0	It was very successful to whip up Canadian nationalism.
1:03.0	We were never going to make Canada a 51st state.
1:06.0	Carney knew that but he ran on it.
1:08.0	But now he's in a conundrum. He's got to come to the White House.
1:13.9	But there's two issues, and they don't look good for Canada.
1:28.3	Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hansson for The Daily Signal. This week, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who was newly elected as the Prime Minister
1:33.5	with a majority of seats in the Canadian Parliament, is visiting Washington.
1:40.0	And as I speak, he's been holding sessions with Donald Trump about the so-called trade war and
1:46.0	Trump's trolling of him about being a 51st state. Let me just address that first. Donald Trump
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