When Canadians voted on April 28, the shadow of Donald Trump—both real and imagined—dominated their minds. They wanted someone to protect them from that existential threat.

Back when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned on January 6, the Liberal Party was planning its political funeral. Trudeau’s humiliating, scandal-plagued resignation, record-low opinion polls and double-digit deficits in voter intention gave Canadians a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rebuke a Liberal Party that had brought historic trouble to the nation.

The Liberals elected Mark Carney, a former banker and first-time politician, as their leader—and then relied heavily on the government’s and media’s Trump-is-Hitler narrative. President Trump’s comments about annexing Canada didn’t help. Canadian voters reacted, and in the end, it wasn’t the Conservative candidate but Carney who gave the victory speech. Although it is a minority government, the Liberals have a rare fourth term, and Carney is looking to take Canada in a new direction.

Most Canadians know little about their new prime minister, his policies or their ramifications.

In domestic policy, Carney has promised to continue Trudeau’s “post-national” trajectory of deficit spending, censorship, open immigration, racial factionalism and sexual perversions. But Carney is attempting a fundamental change in Canadian foreign policy.

No longer will the United States be Canada’s closest ally. Carney plans to make Canada a close ally of Europe and the Old World. While this plan received applause on the campaign trail, few consider the grave consequences of tying Canada’s destiny to that of Europe.

Bible prophecy warns that out of Europe will rise one final resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire: a church-state superpower that will revive the violent legacies of Charlemagne, Napoleon and Hitler, and will oppose the United States and Britain. Is that the future Canadians want to embrace?

The Trumpet, and the Plain Truth before us, have warned for more than 80 years about the danger Europe poses to the world. The Bible’s warnings are explicit, vivid and urgent. Time is short, world powers are realigning, and the foreshocks of tectonic clashes can be felt. It would be dangerously foolish to ignore this warning!

Will Canada end up helping Europe attack the U.S. and Britain as described in Bible prophecy?

The Catholic Connection

Carney writes in his book Value(s) that the late Pope Francis’s socialist economic worldview inspired and led his own thinking. According to Politico: “The prime minister credited Pope Francis with the inspiration for his book. In 2014, the pope joined Carney and a range of policymakers at the Vatican to discuss the future of the market system” (May 16). Carney, a practicing Catholic, said that Pope Francis “defined the moral responsibilities of leadership” in the world today. The new prime minister clearly looks to the Vatican for direction.

Carney attended Pope Leo xiv’s inaugural mass. He was one of the few world leaders who knelt during the blessing of the Eucharist, and he and his family briefly met with the pope afterward.

Carney and other Catholic world leaders are looking to the new pope for inspiration. One fellow Liberal member of Parliament who also attended the mass compared it to the annual opening of Parliament by the British monarch. Pope Leo’s mass was “kind of like our version of ‘the speech from the throne’ as members of Parliament.”

Like other Catholics, these M.P.s regard the pope’s throne as sovereign above Parliament and the King. All leaders’ policies are guided by their faith, but the Catholic Church has played an outsized role in world history and geopolitics, and according to Bible prophecy, it is about to do so again.

The Bible calls the Catholic Church the “mistress … that selleth nations” (Nahum 3:4), a church that enters into relationships with world governments, influencing their policies and politics. Revelation 17 describes a woman riding a beast, symbolizing a Church controlling a powerful, war-making empire. (Request your free copy of The Holy Roman Empire in Prophecy.) While most Catholic followers are surely sincere in their faith, it is a fact of history that the leaders of the Catholic Church are political creatures as much as they are theological.

While the Vatican’s influence has predominantly been in Europe, it has also exerted profound influence in Canada—because the birth of Canada was a compromise between the British and French peoples.

Battle Between Two Thrones

In his masterful work The United States and Britain in Prophecy, the late Herbert W. Armstrong traced the ancestors of Canada and the British peoples back to the ancient Israelite tribe of Ephraim. The promises God gave Abraham and his descendants in the first book of the Bible have formed the foundation of human civilization itself all the way through to our day. Among them was God’s promise to Jacob, whom He renamed Israel, that “a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee” (Genesis 35:11). Britain ruled the largest empire in world history. It is that “company of nations” God promised to the descendants of Ephraim!

Canada was born in battle between the English and French, between Protestants and Catholics. It was also a battle between brothers: the French people are descendants of Reuben, Ephraim’s oldest brother, who lost the birthright promises.

On Sept. 13, 1759, the British won the battle on the Plains of Abraham, at the citadel of Quebec, concluding the struggle for mastery of North America. This victory fulfilled these vital prophecies. The century-old French-Catholic colony of New France came under the authority of the British throne.

Mr. Armstrong explained that the throne in Britain was actually the throne of King David, which God promised would remain until Jesus Christ returns. Mr. Armstrong continued: “Canada, Australia, South Africa were given dominion status—made free and independent nations, ruling themselves independent of England—a company, or commonwealth, of nations joined together, not by legal government, but solely by the throne of David!”

The throne of David joined Canada to Britain and to an inspiring worldview, national purpose and national unity. Yet it is this biblical identity that has been the source of conflict between the English-Protestant majority and the French-Catholic minority in Quebec.

Quebec was founded by Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain in the 1500s as New France under the authority of the papal throne. Relations with the throne of France were often strained, and the Catholic Church played the central role in establishing and nurturing the new colony. Most of the major settlements were established by the Jesuits, who imparted a martyr-like zeal to the inhabitants. To this day, the central unifying force in most communities in Quebec is the local Catholic church.

Consider the scene of the 1640 founding of Montreal (“Mount Royal”) as recounted in the book Bold Ventures: “They knelt to hear the prophetic words of their priest, Father Vimont: ‘You are a grain of mustard seed that shall rise and grow till its branches overflow the earth. You are few, but your work is the work of God. His smile is upon you, and your children shall fill the land.’” Those words are in fact a counterfeit of the promises God made to Ephraim, realized by the British under the throne of David—not the French under the throne of the pope!

Developments in Canada are a collision of two brothers, two cultures, two religions and, most importantly, two thrones.

Canadian history has been a battleground between the papal throne and the throne of David. At every turn, Catholic-led Quebec, both provincially and federally, has sought to attack and destroy the throne of David in Canada, the tie that binds Canada together. Quebec has special ties directly to the pope in Rome through its Ultramontane ecclesiastical government, distinguishing it from any other Catholic community in North America.

While confederation in 1867 was the product of many noble ideas, it included this troubled marriage between Catholic Quebec and English Canada. This compromise has allowed Catholic Quebec to gain outsized influence over the federal government. Especially since World War ii, it has dominated federal policy, guiding the nation away from the throne of David and toward the papal throne.

The major turning point came with the leadership of Pierre Trudeau. The elder Trudeau was raised and educated by radical Jesuits and was highly impacted by Catholic social doctrine, which mixed Catholicism with communism. Many recognize that Trudeau led a Communist infiltration to transform Canada. Fewer understand that he was supported in this by the Catholic Church and Europe. Trudeau effectively intertwined the Catholic vote with Canadian liberalism.

Trudeau’s goal was always to pivot Canada away from America and toward Europe. His introduction of the metric system is a good example. Trudeau’s close friend was German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who led Germany in cementing its control of the European Economic Community. Most of Trudeau’s formative years in education were spent in Europe. While this European foreign policy pivot didn’t happen prior to Pierre Trudeau’s death in 2000, he did achieve a far more important change to Canada’s Constitution.

Trudeau had particular contempt for the throne of David and English law. His greatest ambition was to repatriate the Constitution from Great Britain and remake it in his image. The 1982 Charter of Rights and Freedoms was a coup d’etat against the British throne, supplanting English laws rooted in the Ten Commandments for a French-style civil law rooted in the Roman Empire.

Trudeau could never have achieved this without the help of the Catholic Church. In the 1980s, the process of repatriation was at a standstill. Citizens and leaders in the provinces and even some Liberal M.P.s saw the Charter of Rights as a vehicle for radical social policies like abortion and same-sex “marriage.” British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth ii would assent to the law only if it passed as an act by Canada’s House of Commons with a majority vote. Most Liberal M.P.s were Catholic and opposed abortion.

This is when the Catholic Church intervened. Using its millenniums-old skill of mixing religion with politics, a three-way deal was reached. If the Conservative premier of Ontario increased Catholic School funding, then the cardinal of Toronto would tell Catholic M.P.s to vote for the charter regardless of their reservations.

On April 17, 1982, Queen Elizabeth ii signed the Charter of Rights and Freedoms into law to much fanfare in Ottawa. This famous moment in Canadian history is really a portrait of treachery! The Catholic Church compelled the throne of David to surrender Canada to Communist infiltration and thereby increased its power over the government.

“At the time, no one mentioned this strange paradox,” wrote Frederic Bastien in The Battle of London. “Canada was dusting off its old traditions for a ritual whose purpose was to sacrifice those selfsame traditions in order to build a new country, one that Trudeau wanted to see fundamentally restructured …. Despite royal protocol and the presence of the Queen, there was no doubt that this fateful day would change Canada forever.”

Immediately after signing the charter, the Queen gave a speech. During the ceremony, black clouds descended over the crowd and a hailstorm began, lasting for the rest of the Queen’s address. Even Pierre Trudeau wondered if they had offended God!

The great omnipotent God—who blessed this nation, largely through the throne of David—views Canada’s relationship with the mistress of nations as treachery! In the over 40 years since that moment, Canada has reaped miserable consequences.

In many ways, Justin Trudeau continued his father’s agenda. While the domestic transformation was well in hand, he pivoted the foreign-policy revolution toward China. But late in his tenure, the threat from Donald Trump seems to have redirected his focus. In the last frantic weeks of his premiership, Trudeau was in Europe—setting the stage for Carney to begin a monumental foreign-policy shift generations in the making.

The French Connection

“The old relationship we had with the United States, based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation, is over.” Prime Minister Mark Carney made this historic statement on March 27. This is the most consequential shift in Canadian foreign relations since the last world war. Canada’s future role in world geopolitics is being realigned.

Carney’s first foreign trip was not to Washington, D.C., as every Canadian prime minister has done since World War ii, but to France. French President Emmanuel Macron had sent Carney an invitation before he was even sworn in. A prime minister’s first trip abroad signals his foreign-policy priority. Carney was signaling that France will be Canada’s main future partner.

“Canada must strengthen ties with France and other allies in the face of geopolitical and economic crises, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Monday in France,” the Canadian Press reported on March 17. In remarks before his meeting with Macron, “Carney stressed both countries’ shared values of sovereignty, solidarity and sustainability. ‘Those are values that we hold dear, and unite us,’ he said, noting that the French language defines the identity and culture in each country.”

Defining both Canada and France by French values, culture and identity is a radical statement!

Carney, invoking Quebec’s Catholic heritage, believes Canada has more in common with the Holy Roman Empire than with the United States. The dangerous implication is that Canada will align with the values of the rising Catholic European superpower over those of the British Commonwealth.

Practically, closer economic cooperation with Europe began in 2014 when Prime Minister Stephen Harper signed a free-trade deal with the European Union. When this event occurred, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg wrote in Project Syndicate: “[T]wo often underestimated trans-Atlantic actors—the European Union and Canada—have embarked on an important and timely initiative. [This] highlights the growing importance of the EU-Canada relationship.” Guttenberg saw Canada as an important strategic ally to counter Europe’s reliance on Russian energy and Russia’s aggression in the Arctic.

The return of Donald Trump moved Guttenberg to state in a January 8 speech in Linz, Austria: “As a European group, as nato, together with the Canadians, we can position ourselves much more strongly against the bully Trump.” Canada may be a key military ally of Europe to counter Trump.

These statements are important to note because Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry has pointed to Guttenberg as possibly playing a central role in the resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire. From these comments, it appears Canada could become a partner with Europe in weakening the U.S.

Carney has put the wheels in motion for Canada to be part of Europe’s aggressive rearmament. The Toronto Star reported, “In an effort to pivot away from Canada’s overreliance on the U.S., Prime Minister Mark Carney is looking to Europe to build new security alliances and a new defense industrial strategy that could see European-designed fighter jets built in this country” (March 20).

Carney is the perfect man for this realignment because he is a European technocrat with close relationships with many European leaders. His victory signals an important opportunity for the enemies of the U.S.

The Bible prophesies in Isaiah 23 that a “mart of nations” will launch an aggressive, successful trade war against America. This conglomerate will include Germany, Europe and China. Will it include Canada? Will Canada become a proxy of the Holy Roman Empire?

Carney’s victory makes Canada a dagger aimed at the heart of the American superpower.

Canada and Cuba: Nuclear Pincers?

Canada and Cuba have some interesting connections. Both were conquered by Britain in the Seven Years’ War. (Cuba returned to Spain at the end of the war; Canada stayed with Britain.) Both have strong connections to the Catholic Church, both have Communist governments, and they are close allies. Pierre Trudeau and Fidel Castro were close friends—so much so that there is a persistent rumor that Justin Trudeau is actually Castro’s son.

More importantly, both countries were involved in the successful assassinations of American presidents. Montreal, Quebec, was where the assassination of Abraham Lincoln was planned and financed. Cuba was involved in the assassination of President John Kennedy. Both have been bases of operations for America’s enemies. Will it happen again in the future?

In his booklet Great Again, Mr. Flurry warns that Cuba’s Catholic and Communist connections make it a strategic asset of the Holy Roman Empire. “Modern Cuba is a Communist nation, but it has only been Communist for about six decades—less than a lifetime. It has been a Catholic country for almost 500 years! … Cuba has a recent history with Russia in designing a nuclear attack against America. Couldn’t Cuba join with another world power to complete that design?” The Cuban Missile Crisis demonstrated how great a threat Cuba could be if a hostile power were able to stage offensive weapons there.

Mr. Flurry then warns, “We need to watch this carefully, because Bible prophecy shows clearly that America, Britain and the Jewish nation are in grave danger and will be double-crossed by a reconstituted German-led Holy Roman Empire. How will this happen? I think Cuba could be a significant part of the strategy.”

These same trends are occurring in Canada now. We would be foolish to ignore these warning signs of its closer integration with the Vatican and Europe. Canada’s vast resources, long border, modern air bases within miles of the U.S. border, control of fresh water, Atlantic and Pacific ports, and control of the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes could give the Holy Roman Empire a decisive strategic advantage over America.

Are Cuba and Canada part of a pincer movement planned by the Holy Roman Empire to overthrow America? This would be a sickening, monstrous betrayal.

Bible prophecy warned that our nations would commit adultery with the Catholic Church and be a lover of Germany, with terrible consequences. “The nations of Israel certainly ought to understand this nasty old lady,” writes Mr. Flurry in his booklet Nahum—An End-Time Prophecy for Germany. “But America, Britain and Judah are going to become her ‘lovers.’ We have a foreign policy that loves the Holy Roman Empire. It is going to be our biggest foreign-policy debacle ever! … And Israel is going to pay the ultimate price for being so treacherous to God.”

Elections have consequences. After generations of compromise and forgetting God, Canada is on the verge of joining a terrible betrayal. Blinded by hatred for Donald Trump, Canadians don’t realize the ramifications of electing a Liberal government that has dangerous designs.

These are heavy tidings, but they need not come to pass. God stands ready to intervene on our behalf, as He has in countless other moments in our history, if we will humble ourselves and repent of our treachery and rebellion. Time is short, but hope is not. The national change required to realize this hope begins with you.