🇨🇦 U.S. Republicans are casting the Canadian border as a rising security threat

The sharpest part is not the Republican theatre in Washington. It is that Canada has become easy to sell as the weak flank. At the hearing, U.S. politicians openly argued that differing immigration enforcement between Canada and the U.S. creates openings for smugglers, inadmissible travellers, and even people on the terror watchlist. That is not some patriotic ad for Ottawa. That is a warning label attached to the Trudeau model, as reported.

And look at the farce: claims about fentanyl and cartel pressure were pushed hard, while even the snippet admits researchers questioned parts of it and the cited data were fuzzy. Fine. But the broader indictment still lands. If your border posture is looser, your neighbour will treat you like a vulnerability, not a partner. This is what sovereignty erosion looks like in real time: Canada exports policy naivety, then gets recast as a security problem by Washington. Open-ended migration, managerial denial, and elite self-congratulation always end the same way. Someone else steps in and defines your national reputation for you.

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