Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's chief operating officer is a woman named Maia Johnson. Before she was running the day-to-day operations of a foreign leader's office, Johnson was the Director of Scheduling for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. She is an American citizen.
She was hired in February 2026 as a "Senior Special Advisor for United States Stakeholder Strategy." By mid-July, she was promoted to COO of the Prime Minister's Office. Her appointment was never officially announced on the PM's website. As a U.S. citizen, she is forbidden from holding a Top Secret security clearance in Canada.
The connections between Carney's government and the Democratic Party apparatus run far deeper than one staffer. John Podesta — Clinton's 2016 campaign chairman, Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff, and a fixture of Biden-era climate policy — reportedly facilitated a private meeting in May 2026 between Carney, former President Barack Obama, and Alex Soros in Toronto. Another private gathering followed in July in Nova Scotia.
Gerald Butts, former political adviser to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, now works as a senior advisor at Eurasia Group. Mark Carney's wife, Diana Fox Carney, also serves as a senior advisor at the same firm. Eurasia Group received consulting contracts from the Canadian government between 2011 and 2024. Soros has visited Canada twice in 2026. His wife, Huma Abedin — the longtime Hillary Clinton loyalist — rounds out a roster that reads less like coincidence and more like a phone tree.
Former Conservative PM speechwriter Matt Taube noted in 2025 that "Podesta and Butts clearly know each other, but Carney's campaign has been very careful not to tie him to anyone too specifically." Which raises the obvious question: why would you need to be careful about something that's innocent?
This is all happening against the backdrop of a $60 billion trade deficit between the United States and Canada, with 95% of Canada's business conducted with the U.S. President Trump posted on Truth Social that "Canada has been ripping off the United States of America for years" and added, "They feel entitled, and yet, WE DON'T NEED CANADA, THEY NEED US!" On Monday, Trump announced a 50% tariff on trucks, cars, and steel from Canada, effective January 1, after issuing a USMCA non-renewal notice on July 1.
Carney's response was to suspend trade negotiations with U.S. Trade Representative Jameson Greer and declare, "We cannot accept what they've offered, and we will not give what they've asked." So Canada — which depends on the American market for nearly all of its commerce — decided to stop negotiating. That's not a trade strategy. That's a political one.
The left-wing legal community will insist there's nothing actionable here. No formal treaty negotiation by private citizens, no Logan Act violation, no coordination in any prosecutable sense. Which is an interesting standard from the same people who spent three years investigating whether a thirty-second conversation between Michael Flynn and a Russian ambassador constituted treason.
The infrastructure is plain enough. A Democratic operative running the Canadian PM's office. Podesta organizing private sit-downs between Carney, Obama, and Soros. Eurasia Group connecting Trudeau's former brain trust to Carney's wife. Johnson's hire buried from public view. And all of it aimed at one target: undermining Trump's trade leverage during an active economic dispute.
We spent four years being told that any contact between a Republican and a foreign national was evidence of a conspiracy against democracy. Now a former Hillary Clinton staffer is literally running the office of a foreign leader who is openly hostile to the sitting U.S. president.
Funny how "foreign collusion" stopped being a concern the moment the right people started doing it.