Trump’s top White House pick has a strong view of the Canadian government. It’s not flattering
The man reportedly holding a leading international role inside the Trump White House isn’t just predicting the defeat of Canada’s Trudeau government: He’s celebrating it.
Mike Waltz has a large digital history in international affairs in his six years as a member of the conference, it follows activities in business, defense policy, and as a decorated special forces veteran.
He was nominated by Donald Trump for the powerful post of national security adviser in the next White House, a the crowd of US the media report On Monday evening, although Trump did not publicly comment on any of these reports.
His online comments underscore his view that America’s allies must pull the trigger on security issues, including China, which it views as a major threat to national security.
Waltz predicts that the Liberals will lose the next election
His negative view of the Trudeau government is reflected in a series of social media posts over the years, including gleefully predicting his demise at the next election.
Earlier this year, he posted a video during Canada’s Question Time in which opposition leader Pierre Poilievre mocked Trudeau’s housing policies.
“This guy is going to send Trudeau packing in 2025 (eventually) and start pulling Canada out of the ongoing mess,” Waltz wrote on social media site X.
“His stomping on Trudeau’s nonsense is worth a watch!”
This guy will send Trudeau packing in 2025 (eventually) and start digging Canada out of the ongoing mess it is in.
His trolling of Trudeau’s nonsense is worth a watch! 🇺🇸🇨🇦 https://t.co/4umBSoxIrv
Waltz’s criticism of Trudeau was often related to China.
He called Trudeau it’s a shame by abstaining from voting for the Chinese genocide of Muslim Uyghurs. Share it in different categories social media posts to China for meddling in Canadian elections.
“This is a huge shame,” he said in another post.
He he cried The Trudeau government approves the sale of a lithium mine to a Chinese state-owned corporation. This happened two years ago, and Canada has started like that moved to boot those owned by the Chinese empire from some important mineral sites.
Waltz again he complained about Chinese donors pledged $1 million to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation and it is said that it wants erecting a statue of China’s first Communist leader outside a Montreal university.
The Florida congressman has another connection to Canada.
Another of his Canadian connections: the pipeline business
His wife, Julia Nesheiwat, is a Calgary-based vice president Company TC Energy Corp.; is the energy company formerly known as TransCanada, builder of the ill-fated Keystone XL pipeline.
Waltz’s social media posts are now a window into the important reality that awaits Canada in Jan. 20, when the new administration takes office.
Trump’s team expected to suppressaggressively, so that partners including Canada take up spending on defense and security.
This will happen amid threats from Trump to punish all countries, including allies, with trade measures including a minimum 10 percent tariff on imports.
As Donald Trump prepares to return to office, he has spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin and is finalizing his inner circle, cutting off his Republican critics and making key campaign promises he will make when he returns to the White House.
Canada’s argument against those tariffs is expected to include the point that it contributes to US security – as an oil supplier, and possible mineralsthat reduces America’s dependence on foreign countries, including China.
It’s an argument Waltz is probably well aware of – given his personal connection to TC Energy.
Waltz also introduced ia shout to former prime minister Stephen Harper at the Conservatives’ international conference in 2022.
His comments about the upcoming Canadian election point to another dynamic coming in the coming months: The question of whether Canada-US talks on sensitive issues, such as taxes and defense spending, will take place more before or after the Canadian election.
Waltz: NATO partners need to ‘step up’ defense spending
Waltz has a generally Republican view on some international issues.
He was with enthusiasm in favor of helping Ukraine, certainly after the Russian invasion, but, as his party grew more skeptical, he echoed that feeling.
He is there victim NATO partners are doing the bare minimum in meeting their defense spending obligations.
Waltz joked in another post about European countries meeting the 2 percent spending target, saying it was like “congratulations to the F student for getting a D. We need our partners to step up, rather than let us off the hook and have American taxpayers foot the bill!”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is reviving a special cabinet committee dedicated to Canada-US relations.
His comment record in Canada is equal to that of the next secretary of state, Sen. Marco Rubio.
In the past, Rubio has often talked about working with Canada in an unsuccessful effort to split Venezuela’s Maduro government.
He said that and expressed his disgust in the way warmly Trudeau introduced Fidel Castro after the Cuban dictator’s death in 2016.
“Is this a real statement or a joke?” Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, tweeted at the time. “Because if this is a real statement from the Canadian PM it is shameful and disgraceful.”
Another candidate for a major role knows better about Canadian affairs.
Lawyer Elise Stefanik, Trump’s UN envoy, who works in the New York border region, has experience with cross-border files, and used to lead a congressional group focused on Canadian issues before emerging nationally as Trump’s rabble-rouser. protector.
