Intro

You can't win against U.S. oligarchy by letting oligarchy in through the back door. All the defence spending in the world doesn't matter in that case because you have misjudged how the U.S. influence strategy works.

“The U.S. wants to achieve energy dominance. We support you in that view… [as] Fortress North America” Tim Hodgson, the Canadian Energy Minister recently told the U.S. Regarding Trump's U.S. tech billionaire friends wanting to build out AI data centres: “We can provide [the] gas,” Hodgson said.

Polling shows this is NOT what Canadians want; not in Alberta nor NL.

Back in December 2025 we warned that Trump’s new 'National Security' Strategy declared U.S. plans to use private sector influence erode Canadian sovereignty. The strategy mentions the oil and gas and tech sectors in particular as tools for expanding U.S. influence and specifically declares climate action in other countries to be a threat to U.S. dominance. All the more reason to take climate action if we want sovereignty, but U.S. influence is working...

Thanks to big oil and gas' influence, our Federal Government’s plan is now to:

1. Help the U.S. Government and their AI tech billionaire friends torch the climate, causing more out of control wildfires, so they can generate AI slop and disinformation (to be used against Canada) via water-wasting, gas-powered, data centres.
2. Trust oil and gas corporations and FURTHER INTEGRATE OUR ECONOMY with the U.S. while holding back the renewable energy that could actually improve sovereignty (which is what oil and gas interests have wanted all along).

Our situation brings to mind a warning from George Orwell in Animal Farm that even governments with the best of initial intentions can become the thing they claim to prevent (a warning that we must always hold leaders to account):

    "Four legs good, two legs better."

"Canadian sovereignty good, Fortress North America better," must not become a legitimate idea. 

Find out more in our Newsletter (WITH SOURCES): https://www.sierraclub.ca/canadian-gas-ai-data-centres-keystone-xl-fortress-north-america/

Call Your MP: https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en

And speak with others!

See our Sovereignty Saturdays podcast sub-series for even more context: https://www.sierraclub.ca/sovereignty-saturdays-canada-podcast/

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