🔴Pierre Poilievre, Mike Pompeo, Pete Hoekstra and Danielle Smith Walk Into a Conference. This Is Not a Punchline.🔴

By Annie Koshy

From May 6 to 9, the Westin Hotel in Ottawa will host the Canada Strong and Free Network’s annual conference. The feature speakers are Pierre Poilievre, Leader of the Official Opposition, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, former CIA Director and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Pete Hoekstra, the sitting United States Ambassador to Canada. The Washington Bureau Chief of Breitbart News is also on the speaker list.

Canada is currently in an active trade dispute with the United States. The Trump administration has imposed tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum, automobiles and softwood lumber. American officials have repeatedly questioned Canadian sovereignty, including references to Canada as a potential 51st state. The federal government is engaged in active negotiations to protect Canadian economic interests against an administration that has been openly hostile to this country’s independence.

Pete Hoekstra is not a private citizen. He is the official representative of the Trump administration in Canada. His presence as a featured speaker at a major Canadian conservative networking event alongside the Leader of the Official Opposition is not a diplomatic courtesy. It is a signal.

Pompeo was a central architect of the America First framework that treated alliances with Canada as obstacles rather than assets. His alignment with the MAGA movement is documented and consistent.

Now add what happened in Alberta this week. Nearly three million Albertans had their names, home addresses, phone numbers and elector identification numbers loaded into a publicly searchable separatist recruitment app without their knowledge or consent. Smith’s response was a social media post. What she did not mention is that her own government passed legislation last summer raising the threshold Elections Alberta needed to launch an investigation, which is precisely why the agency declined to act when journalist Jen Gerson reported the database on March 31, a full month before the injunction was finally granted. The breach persisted for thirty additional days as a direct consequence of that legislative change. Alberta’s Privacy Commissioner described it as incredibly serious and has been calling for political parties to be covered under privacy law for decades. Smith’s government has not acted on that request. It is now promising to consider it after the fact.

A conference themed around Canadian sovereignty and strength, featuring the American Ambassador and a former American Secretary of State from the administration waging economic war on this country, alongside a premier who weakened the tools needed to protect her own citizens’ democratic information, is not oriented toward Canadian national interest.

Canadians are allowed to ask whose sovereignty this is actually about.

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