Pat Gray

President Trump and the Pentagon have called Carney's bluff here because he's been saying that they don't need the United States.

Okay, well then, how about this?

You can take care of your own defense.

We don't need to be guarding you for...

the next 50 years like we have the last 50.

The Department of Defense announced it was pausing the 86-year-old permanent joint board of defense between the United States and Canada.

According to Undersecretary for War Policy Eldridge Colby, the move comes amid mounting frustration in Washington over Canada's chronic defense underinvestment and Prime Minister Mark Carney's increasingly confrontational rhetoric toward President Trump.

We can no longer avoid the gaps between rhetoric and reality.

Real powers must sustain our shared defense and security responsibilities.

So this thing was established in 1940 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.

You remember him?

I do.

I love, love him.

William Lyon was a terrific PM of Canada.

The board became one of the earliest pillars of continental defense cooperation.

And it came as Nazi Germany tightened its grip on Europe and fears grew over Atlantic security.

That alliance eventually evolved into NORAD and decades of deep military integration between the two countries.

And who's footing the bill for it?

Yeah, of course we are.

No, Canada's helping us, right?