🇨🇦 Pentagon freezes obscure defence board, hands Canada a perfect grievance

Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon's undersecretary of war for policy, paused U.S. participation in the Permanent Joint Board on Defence—a Cold War relic that met seven times in the last decade—to punish Canada for alleged defence failures. The absurdity: Mark Carney's government already dragged spending to two percent of GDP this spring and committed to five percent total. Colby linked his announcement to Carney's Davos speech, because nothing says sovereignty like taking marching orders from the WEF capital while pretending to lecture others.

The move backfired instantly. Most Canadians never knew the board existed, but now they have a fresh reason to resent American overreach. Instead of pressuring Ottawa, Colby just made future U.S. military procurement politically radioactive and complicated NORAD modernization. When your bullying is this theatrical and this poorly timed, you're not enforcing burden-sharing—you're writing nationalist campaign ads for free.

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