FT learned about the White House's proposal to exclude Canada from the Five Eyes Alliance

In the presidential administration USA Donald Trump was asked to exclude Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance. This was reported on February 25 by the newspaper Financial Times.

According to the newspaper, the initiative was expressed by one of the closest advisers to the American leader, Peter Navarro. He said that the United States should increase pressure on Canada in this way. It is not known how Trump reacted to this idea, the newspaper noted.The Financial Times, citing Dennis Wilder, editor—in-chief of the US President's intelligence briefings, said that the Five Eyes is the most successful intelligence-sharing agreement in world history.

"Although Canada and New Zealand provide the least amount of intelligence information in the group, the exclusion of any member will provoke criticism from other allies, as well as from intelligence officials in Washington and beyond," the authors of the material concluded.

The Five Eyes Alliance was established in 1946 and unites the intelligence services of the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

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Trump on February 1st signed a decree on the introduction of trade tariffs for goods from Canada, China and Mexico. According to him, Canada is responsible for significant amounts of drug smuggling into the United States.

The next day, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that href="https://iz.ru/1832310/2025-02-02/trudo-zaavil-o-vvedenii-kanadoi-otvetnyh-poslin-v-25-na-tovary-iz-ssa " target="_blank">the Canadian authorities are imposing retaliatory duties of 25% on goods from the United States totaling $155 billion.

At the same time, the American president said that if Canada wants to achieve tax cuts and avoid paying customs duties, it href="https://iz.ru/1832499/2025-02-02/tramp-predlozhil-kanade-stat-51-m-shtatom-ssha-radi-otmeny-poshlin"> It should become part of the United States as the 51st state. Trudeau on February 7th called Trump's threat real to make Canada a new state.