thePodcast: As Canada's PM gets cozy with China's Xi, author asks: "Is this the type of partner that we want?"

For the week of Jan. 18, 2026:  Less than a year after Mark Carney deemed China to be Canada’s biggest security threat, Carney was in Beijing to declare China to be Canada’s “strategic partner.” “It speaks to that lack of concern for our relationship with the United States, our own internal security,” said Dennis Molinaro, this week’s guest on thePodcast. “Thinking that we can partner with a country like China and forego all those security concerns in favour of business. As though somehow business and trade will solve all our issues — it won’t.” Dennis Molinaro is the author of […]