Previously, Mark Carney and the Canadian govt famously fired Air Canada’s CEO because he shamefully didn’t speak French. This week he hired American, Maia Johnson, as his Chief Operations Officer (COO), she also doesn’t speak French and the Canadians are perplexed.
Hired by Prime Minister Mark Carney, the role of Democrat party operative and former Michael Bloomberg associate, Maia Johnson, seems directly related to the strategy of leveraging U.S. Democrat resistance against the CUSMA (USMCA) termination.
[Note: Mark Carney and Michael Bloomberg connect through their banking and finance network with prior associations. This relationship also connects to U.K Mayor Andy Burnham who is likely to become the next U.K Prime Minister to replace Keir Starmer.]
Readers to CTH likely remember in 2018 former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leveraged Democrat House Leader Nancy Pelosi to regain position in the USMCA negotiations (NAFTA elimination) with USTR Robert Lighthizer.
It appears that Carney is attempting a similar maneuver through the connections of Democrat operative Maia Johnson.
Specifically, because positioning American resistance to the CUSMA (USMCA) termination is a key part of the Carney strategy, a COO from U.S. Democrat politics is the best strategic approach. A Canadian in that role would be of far lesser value.
TORONTO SUN – […] This week, it was reported that Carney was promoting a woman unknown to most Canadians to the position of chief operating officer in the PMO.
It appears to be a first for Canada to have a COO in the PMO, but it’s who the woman is that is truly interesting.
Maia Johnson is currently listed in the government employee directory as Carney’s “Senior Advisor, United States Stakeholder Strategy.” That sounds like a job for someone at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, not someone working on Wellington St. in Ottawa.
This is where it gets really interesting, though, because Johnson, the woman advising Carney on how to deal with Donald Trump, is an American and a registered Democrat with ties to the campaigns of Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
In what world does it make sense for Johnson to be a senior advisor on Canada-U.S. relations, never mind be elevated to the position of chief operating officer of Canada’s PMO? (more)
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Has she registered as a foreign agent?
Great minds think alike.
A FARA filing better have been done by Maia Johnson already.
Parts changer.
If you don’t know what’s wrong with a machine keep changing parts and see if you get lucky.
The chi coms are trying to gain a bigger foothold in Canada, and the left is all over any chinese operations. I’ve been thinking for years that if the state of California decided to defect from the rest of US, they would just let the chi coms land on their beaches. The Canadians are pawns, but the leadership wants to have a seat at the big table. They’ll sacrifice their people, too, just to get that seat.
As a resident of CA, I agree. As in: whatever happened to that billion dollar mask deal Newsome did with China? Just vanished like everything else?
Chili con Carney! Snow Mexican Cartoon Network. That’s all folks.
That is very funny to me. Why would he think that she has any influence in American politics? The Democrat party, in general, is in the dog house. So, maybe it’s her connections that he thinks are promising. It sounds dumb.
Carney and the Canadian government planning on the USMCA still being around is akin to planning on winning the Powerball jackpot for your retirement. (Except you probably have a better chance winning the Powerball.)
“there is still the question of why Carney couldn’t find a Canadian to do the job. Does he think Canada is so bereft of talent that he needs to import an American?”
Sovereign nationality is but a quaint notion to these elites. Her passport is irrelevant. That she’s a fellow traveler is quite relevant.
Anyone else seeing more parallels between the Globalist world order and the Commonwealth?
Isn’t going to work. The ‘rats union buddies are on the side of the US.
Maia Johnson and Carney are old pals. She previously worked with him on his failed climate initiative:
https://x.com/cbcwatcher/status/2076815532653711389
She’s got a string of failures, so she should be an excellent fit.
Eh?
https://x.com/ImJulianAssange/status/2077122515336671354
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Carney hires Hillary Clinton cronie who worked with John Podesta on Clintons 2016 Presidential campaign.
Meet the new leader of Canada, we don’t even need to become the 51st state, we will just let them govern Canada now.
Great timing!
Alberta needs to know.
Wow!
Outstanding choice of a COO Canada. Not only has she only always been on the losing side of every major campaign she’s ever been part of, the current US Dim party is so divided with leftist commies, she’s likely to turn off even more people Carney hoped to sway. Absolutely laughable.
Sacrebleu!
All I can say is . . .
“eh?”
I think that’s all the “Canadian” I know!
Not sure if I even have that right!
COO installed by an installed PM.