Lesson from Venezuela: Carney Must Make 2026 the Year of Rea

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Lesson from Venezuela: Carney Must Make 2026 the Year of Real Security

QUOTE: "Day 3 of the new year and we already knew the mission, even before Trump bombed Caracas. Canada stood strong against annexation in 2025. In 2026, sovereignty and climate progress must go hand in hand."

- January 3, 2026 - Mitchell Beer - The Energy Mix Weekender <energymixweekender@substack.com>

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EXCERPT: "The news still unfolding in Venezuela is just the most obvious evidence, after Trump spent a good part of last year extending his influence across South and Central America. The wider context is a new national security strategy in which a politically weakened, likely literally demented Trump telegraphs his plan to assert dominance across the entire Western Hemisphere, Canada included.

Making matters worse, his treacherous allies in Alberta’s extremist fringe are all set to support him, manufacturing a likely separation referendum this year with the help of a provincial government that tilted the scales and changed the laws to make it easier for them to organize.

And in the end—from Venezuela, to Alberta, to Ukraine’s Donbas region—it’s all about oil, and Donald Trump’s delusional “energy dominance” agenda.

For the rest of us, the challenge of the year will be to confront the real-life threats we face—in climate change, the cost of living, housing, health care, nature protection, and more—while standing together to protect Canada itself as Trump’s annexation threats escalate. Through it all, in contrast to the energy and resource superpower strategy we’ve seen from federal and provincial governments, we’ll hold ourselves, each other, and our country together with practical, front-line solutions.

Solutions that build real security, while pushing down emissions and building resilient communities along the way. . . . ."

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