Until their current Dear Leader, Justin Trudeau, took office, they were a close and valuable ally.
Since he's taken power (let's ignore the election fraud issues for now) much has changed, and no one seems to want to acknowledge or do anything about it.
The issues:
They are bringing in 10's of thousands of largely un-vetted military age males from regions such as Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, etc. They are then kicking their own soldiers out of their barracks in order to house these "refugees". They're granted largely unescorted access to these military bases. When our government asked their Ambassador for a list of questions these new immigrants were asked, and for what background information the Canadian government asked them, our government was told that "no such list exists". Their government has passed a law making it illegal to criticize Islam in Canada, and is currently working with China on ways to censor the internet in that country.
These "refugees" are now on the other side of a massive undefended border with unfettered access to the United States. These, again, are military aged males, alone, of whom their own government knows almost nothing about.
Under Comrade Trudeau's leadership, they sold a military contractor, including all secrets, to the Chinese. This contractor held several designs and contracts with the United States military, and those secrets went with it.
They have recently signed a contract with Huawei to handle all of their government communications systems. For those who don't know, Huawei is well known to operate as an intelligence gathering corporation that feeds all of the information to Chinese government entities. We are connected to Canadian infrastructure and any access by China to Canada means access to the US. They instituted a carbon tax on their own citizens, but have said that the carbon tax will not apply to OPEC oil counties that sell to Canada yet this will apply to anything that the US sells.
Canada has cancelled it's ship building contracts that were supposed to shore up it's northern fleet, which is the logical direction that China or Russia would attack from.
They have a minuscule military, their Air Force can barely muster a response to a civilian air liner declaring an emergency, largely relying on the United States to defend them, to the point of having the US rescue a sailor from one of their warships because they lacked the ability to do it themselves. Even when it participated in combat in Afghanistan, though their soldiers were well trained and professional, they often had to trade their food to the US troops for ammunition in order to fight. They showed up to the desert war in bright green uniforms carrying equipment they had mostly bought for themselves.
As much as I support Trump, I cannot fathom why he continually refers to Canada as our closest ally when the reality is they've taken frequent enemy action against the United States, nor can I understand why the media lets all of this go largely unchecked. Something needs to be done before it cannot be undone.
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