Staff Reports
Peter Schweizer ripped the mask off a dangerous, transnational playbook during a recent Founders’ Roundtable, warning Americans that foreign powers and their domestic allies are weaponizing migration and influence against Western democracies. His reporting, rooted in exhaustive investigation, shows this is not academic fear-mongering but a real strategic assault on sovereignty that demands our full attention. Conservatives should treat Schweizer’s revelations as a clarion call to defend national identity and security.
Schweizer laid out how Beijing’s elites exploit birth tourism and surrogacy to manufacture citizens with legal footholds inside free societies, a scheme that hands the Chinese Communist Party long-term leverage without firing a shot. These are not hypothetical anecdotes; investigators have documented hundreds of surrogate operations and organized services that funnel citizenship benefits back to China. If the left insists on treating borders and citizenship as moral abstractions, they are handing authoritarians a demographic weapon.
Meanwhile, Ottawa’s recent pivot toward Beijing should alarm every patriot who still believes in the North American security partnership. Canadian leaders have been publicly warming relations with Chinese officials, even as Beijing uses tariffs and economic coercion to bend Canada’s choices on critical exports like canola and seafood. The idea that Ottawa can “diversify” away from the United States by cozying up to an authoritarian mercantilist state is naive at best and treasonous at worst.
Let’s be honest about motive: a sizable segment of Canadian elites have been ridden with Trump Derangement Syndrome for years, and partisan spite has warped Ottawa’s judgment on national security. Plenty of commentators have watched this emotional reflex push Canada into strange, risk-prone diplomacy simply to spite a U.S. leader they loathe. When policy is driven by personal vendettas rather than national interest, ordinary citizens and workers pay the price.
The security consequences are not theoretical. Canada’s flirtation with Huawei and other Beijing-linked firms, and its slow-footed response to clear intelligence warnings, have repeatedly put Canadians at risk of surveillance, IP theft, and political penetration. Think tanks and analysts across the Western world have warned that trade and tech deals with Beijing often mask strategic dependency and backdoor access for a regime that does not share our values. This is exactly the sort of vulnerability Schweizer says enemies exploit through migration, commerce, and influence operations.
Schweizer’s larger point is political and urgent: weaponized immigration and foreign meddling don’t help one party or another — they reshape the electorate and the institutions that keep our liberty intact. If conservatives are to reclaim the future, we must demand concrete steps: transparency, tightened immigration safeguards, and pressure on allies who flirt with adversaries. The fight isn’t partisan theater; it’s a struggle for whether free nations remain free.
Patriots in both countries should reject the cowardly politics of appeasement and choose national interest over fashionable outrage. The United States and Canada built the greatest, most prosperous alliance in history by standing together against tyrants, not by trading principles for trade deals. It’s time to call out the folly, hold leaders accountable, and ensure our borders and institutions are defended for the hardworking families who deserve a secure future.
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