Barbara Boyd is warning that Canada’s growing alignment with the European Union represents a potentially hostile challenge to the United States, arguing that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s push for deeper European integration is part of a broader geopolitical struggle involving trade, the Arctic, Russia and control of strategic resources.
Boyd opened her presentation with President Donald Trump’s response to the possibility of Canada becoming an associate member of the European Union.
“No, I think it’s laughable. Look, the whole thing with Canada. Canada has been a terrible trade partner, and no, I don’t see that,” Trump said.
“And if they do that, if I think it’s at all a hostile act, I will put very serious tariffs or stop trading with Europe on many things. So if they do that, if Europe does that with a bad intention, if it if it’s a good intention, that’s fine. If it’s a bad intention, we’ll put very heavy tariffs on Europe.”
Trump made those remarks after being questioned about Canada’s potential relationship with the EU.
His comments were reported from a September 16 press exchange.
Boyd argued Trump had left himself room to respond aggressively if he concluded the developing Canada-EU relationship was aimed at weakening American interests.
“He said it was laughable, but he also put a condition on it,” Boyd said.
“If he decides it is hostile, he won’t just put heavy tariffs on the EU, he will stop trading with Europe, period. And it is hostile.”
Carney has publicly pushed for a significantly deeper partnership with Europe, telling the European Parliament that Canada welcomed discussions about becoming the EU’s first associate member and highlighting cooperation involving energy, critical minerals, defense, technology and the Arctic.
“I’m not proposing a third bloc in order to become a great power rival only with better manners,” Carney said.
“We We do not seek power to dominate others. On the contrary, we are pursuing resilience so no one no one can control our open markets, impair our sovereignty, threaten our territorial integrity, or undermine our freedoms, our democracies, our rule of law.”
Boyd interpreted Carney’s remarks as an indirect attack on the United States under Trump, although Carney did not identify Trump or the United States in that portion of his speech.
“In that statement, without naming Trump, Carney accuses the United States of every bad thing he mentioned,” Boyd said.
Boyd contrasted Canada’s European strategy with Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s recent work in Latin America, where Peru announced it would join the U.S.-led Shield of the Americas counternarcotics initiative.
Reuters reported that Peru’s participation involves greater intelligence sharing and coordination against transnational criminal organizations.
“These are transnational terrorist organizations that do not respect sovereign borders and operate in multiple countries with the same aim and the same goal of exploiting countries and exploiting their people and harming them,” Rubio said.
Rubio said the regional effort was intended to confront criminal organizations whose resources can rival those of governments.
“What is it a shield against? It is a shield against these threats to the sovereignty of these independent nations,” Rubio said.
“It is a is a shield against these transnational criminal groups that in many cases have more money and better military equipment than the state. That is unacceptable, and the only way to defeat it is to confront it forcefully.”
Boyd portrayed the initiative as part of a broader transformation of U.S. security policy throughout the Western Hemisphere.
On September 16, the White House announced Trump’s designation of 23 countries as major drug transit or major illicit drug-producing countries for fiscal year 2027.
“So, our southern border is finally being secured,” Boyd said.
“Fentanyl deaths are way down, along with drug profits. Now, we’ll address the globalists trying to create a second front on our northern border.”
Carney’s strategy has also drawn criticism from JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, who earlier dismissed the Canadian leader’s broader proposal for increased cooperation among middle powers.
“Like when Mark Carney said, You know, the middle power should get together. It’s a fantasy. They did that, it’s called Europe, you know,” Dimon said.
He followed that criticism with a warning about Europe’s relative economic performance.
“No, no, but Europe, but this this is a serious problem. The GDP of Europe has gone from 90% of America to 70%, and at the current and and our view is it’ll probably continue to erode over time.”
Dimon made substantially the same remarks during a Council on Foreign Relations event, where he argued Europe’s economy had declined relative to the United States.
Boyd argued that the Arctic represents the most consequential element of the dispute.
She said Canada and its European partners were seeking greater control over Arctic infrastructure and security, potentially creating a strategic challenge along America’s northern approaches.
Trump announced on September 18 that the United States, Denmark and Greenland had reached an agreement expanding America’s long-term security role in Greenland.
Trump said the arrangement would prevent U.S. adversaries from establishing military bases or making sensitive investments there.
Danish and Greenlandic officials said sovereignty and Greenlandic self-determination would remain intact, and the agreement still requires formal procedures before taking effect.
Boyd characterized the agreement as a major answer to the geopolitical developments she described.
“It looks to me like Canada, London, and Brussels just got trumped yet again,” Boyd said.
She also pointed to Trump administration concerns about narcotics entering the United States through Canada and predicted additional pressure on Canadian financial institutions.
Boyd cited TD Bank as an example. In 2024, TD Bank pleaded guilty in the United States to Bank Secrecy Act and money laundering conspiracy violations.
The Justice Department announced a $1.8 billion criminal resolution, while combined federal penalties totaled approximately $3 billion.
Boyd concluded that Carney’s policies, Canada’s deeper relationship with Europe and U.S. concerns about drugs and money laundering could produce additional economic and political confrontation.
“But Carney and the EU are dead set on building a bloc of countries hostile to the United States, fed with Canadian resources, all to stop Donald Trump and save their empire,” Boyd said.
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That characterization represents Boyd’s interpretation of the emerging Canada-EU relationship. Carney has publicly described the partnership as an effort to strengthen Canadian and European resilience, sovereignty and economic security rather than as an alliance directed against the United States.