🚨 For anyone tracking the under-16 social media bans in Canada and the UK, you might have noticed the government suddenly walking back some specific wording.
They backed off forcing you to upload credit cards or facial scans because of the public backlash, and now they’re pushing a "backend token system". It sounds less intrusive on the surface, but here is the truth about what that actually means, because most people are being completely misled by that marketing:
A cryptographic token isn't a magic, anonymous poker chip. To work, a token has to be anchored to something verified. That means your physical device, your phone carrier contract, or your real identity is permanently tethered to that token.
Every single time your phone throws that token to let you log into an app, it logs exactly who you are, where you are, and what you're doing.
It isn't a privacy shield to protect kids. It's a digital passport that tracks an adult's every move across the internet.
Minister LeBlanc comments after meeting with U.S. trade rep – June 16, 2026
https://t.co/dirP6Svkby
Video: Minister LeBlanc comments after meeting with U.S. trade rep – June 16, 2026 (CPAC)
Duration: ~12 minutes
Speakers: Dominic LeBlanc (Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade), Janice Charette (Chief Trade Negotiator), and reporters.[0:03]
LeBlanc: Good morning. Good morning. How are you, Mr. White? It's still going well. I'm so glad to see you. You have no idea. Glad to see. I'm always happy to see Jamon [Jamieson Greer]. And we're happy to take your questions. Um, so Jan [Janice] Charette and I had a long and we thought constructive meeting with Ambassador Greer. It very much builds on the work we did with him in Washington on June 2. We have obviously remained in contact. I've had a number of conversations in the intervening days, and we agreed that it would be useful on the margins of this summit to have a conversation again and to build on what we thought were the substantive discussions that we had in Washington a couple of weeks ago. We took stock of the work that we have done over the last two weeks and we agreed that we would be in touch again next week. [French portion, ~1:15–2:15]
If you will allow me to speak in French: Madame Charette and I met with Ambassador Greer to specifically review the work we had done together since our meeting on June 2nd in Washington. It was a detailed meeting, as I said weeks ago, and it has required conversations at several levels since that meeting. Mr. Greer and I started by reviewing the work that has been done, discussing the next steps we would take together, and in the end, we agreed to meet again next week. I remain confident that we will see progress. That was the conclusion, I think, of our American friends. So we'll continue to do the work. That is why Mrs. Charette and I came here to Évian for the G7.
Reporter 1: Mr. LeBlanc, what does it tell us that Mr. Carney felt the need to go see Mr. Trump today to talk to him about the issue of Chinese electric vehicles and to reassure him about the quota issue by saying that there were only 49,000 electric vehicles that were going to enter Canada? Does this mean that Americans are worried about this, or what does it tell us?
LeBlanc: I, Madame Charette might add something. I have been discussing this issue with Mr. Greer and Mr. Lutnick for several months now. There is nothing new in the conversation Mr. Carney had with President Trump. We reiterated that ultimately it is a firm quota of 49,000 vehicles which represents approximately 3% of the Canadian new vehicle sales market. I thought Mr. Carney took the opportunity to speak directly with Mr. Trump. But again, this was not news to the Americans, it was an observation.
Reporter 1 (follow-up): Why did he go to see Mr. Trump to tell him that? Why did he feel the need to go and reassure him about that?
LeBlanc: Well, the good news is that I think you'll see in about twelve hours, Mr. Carney, you can ask precisely that question. I wasn't in the room, I saw the report but as I told you, for us it was a discussion we had with the Americans following Mr. Carney's visit to China in January. So the Prime Minister took the opportunity to remind Mr. Trump precisely what he meant. There was a lot of confusion in the United States following this agreement with the Americans. It was a way of clarifying things precisely for Mr. Trump. Madame Charette will add something.
Charette / LeBlanc continuation: Yes... Perhaps I can add just a few words. If I understand correctly, this was one of the discussions the Prime Minister had with President Trump, and he chose the moment to explain the arrangement with China regarding cars. It's not just one of the conversations they were having today.
LeBlanc: What else did they talk about? You will have the chance to ask him the question tomorrow. Further on EVs: Ministered with President Trump during the day today. Um there's nothing new in what the prime minister said to President Trump. This importation of Chinese electric vehicles has a hard cap which didn't exist previously of 49,000 vehicles. This represents 3% of the new vehicle market sales in Canada. Um anything over that has 100% tariff plus the most favored nation tariff. It was an opportunity for the prime minister to remind President Trump as we have with Ambassador Greer and Secretary Lutnick that this in fact takes Canada back to a position in terms of Chinese vehicles of two years ago. And it was a time-limited specific arrangement that provided very important relief to canola producers and canola growers in Canada and the seafood sector in Atlantic Canada. This shouldn't surprise anyone that the prime minister took this opportunity to discuss what is a well-known circumstance for a number of months.
Reporter: What the other things that the prime minister spoke with... they discussed many things. What else?LeBlanc: So again, I understand why you would ask that question. It's uh Monday uh Tuesday evening in France. The good news is tomorrow morning, which will be the middle of the night uh back home, you'll have a chance with Prime Minister Carney to ask that question.
Reporter 2: Weeks ago in Washington you resolved 12 of the 36 issues the Americans had presented. This is what the prime ministers were told in the prime minister's meeting. Have you further reduced the remaining list of 24 down to another number uh as of today?
LeBlanc: I wouldn't speak for what the Prime Minister may or may not have said publicly. Um I said in Washington and Madam Charette may want to add um we made progress in um resolving with Jamon a number of issues that the United States Trade Representative has raised over a number of months with Canada. In our conversation with Jameson today, we took stock of the progress over the last two weeks since that conversation with him in Washington and we talked about a number of other issues that the United States raises with us but we also talked about issues that are important to Canadian workers and the Canadian economy. Um so it's by no means a one-way conversation. A conversation implies that would be exchange um of views and Jamon is um always willing to listen to what we have to say about what we think would be in the interest of the resolution of...
Reporter (interrupting/repeating): David you've just asked the same question twice. Um I'll give you the same answer. We don't negotiate the details of these issues publicly.
Reporter 3: Any further concessions to open negotiations? Are you prepared to make further concessions to the gentleman? What are we not prepared to do?
LeBlanc: It's about negotiating publicly and giving details of that kind of conversation. Well, I remain convinced that it is in the economic interest of Canada and the United States and obviously Mexico to reach an agreement to support the [CUSMA] agreement. The Americans have publicly discussed several issues with both Canada and Mexico. So in the conversation with Jameson Greer, we once again addressed these issues in detail, but we also obviously raised what concerns Canadian workers and Canadian businesses. So, in these conversations, I think we need to remain fully engaged to make progress. The issues the United States raises with us are published annually and spoken about voluminously uh in appearances that uh Ambassador Greer [and] others make publicly and before the US Congress. So none of what you would describe as the United States irritants would surprise any of you. Um these are issues that they discuss publicly all the time.
Reporter 4: Minister, is seeking foreign investment from China on EVs for Canada. Is that an issue that's been discussed? Is that an issue that is unifying or something else? How would you classify that?
LeBlanc: Again, Madam J's [Charette's] visit to China is building on the prime minister's trip there in January. Um she my understanding is going to meet with Chinese uh businesses and Chinese officials to talk about uh further investments and further trade opportunities with the appropriate guardrails in place.
Reporter 5: Mr. LeBlanc, you came all the way here to Évian, what have you accomplished? What was the point of coming here, specifically?LeBlanc: Well, I thought I had explained what we won? We took stock. I mean, concretely, we took stock, we had in-depth, detailed discussions with the Americans, which represents a continuation of the progress we made during the two weeks we spent in Washington. I understand that you want the specific details. I understand, but I also understand that it is not in the interest of Canada or Canadian workers to discuss this kind of detailed conversation publicly. The important thing is that we continue these conversations, and Mr. Greer and I have committed to meeting and talking again next week. I am... when Mr. Greer told us, well, if you are in Évian, it is an opportunity to meet and talk more, it would have been a little irresponsible to say, oh, but it's a long trip, we are not interested. On the contrary, we are very interested, and that is why I am once again optimistic and happy to have had the chance to meet Jameson and talk more. Perhaps Janice would like to add something?
(Janice Charette may have added brief closing remarks; the available transcription cuts off here toward the end of the ~12-minute video.)
Canadians who boo-ed the American National Anthem at the World Cup in Toronto, you guys are the most classless ratchet ass hoes and an embarrassment to humanity.
St. Paul, Minn. — Violent Antifa supporters gathered to attack the Warren E. Burger federal courthouse to possibly jailbreak their comrades who were federally indicted and had their first court hearing inside.
15 Antifa members were indicted by the DOJ for their alleged violent criminal conspiracies in the Twin Cities in January related to attacking federal officials. Read: https://t.co/yehrDAJ7lQ
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You'll find out Thursday.
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), the entity that protects the interests of the DC Deep State, is going to hold a confirmation hearing for current USAO Jay Clayton on Wednesday afternoon. An SSCI vote is then likely within 12 hours, and a full Senate vote within 24 hours (Thursday).
Only one legal case has ever pushed into the sphere of challenging this unconstitutional exploitation. A 2025 decision in the U.S. v. Hasbajrami in Brooklyn, New York, where Eastern District Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall identified the misuse of FISA-702 “backdoor searches” regarding defendant, Agron Hasbajrami.
https://t.co/G8vz8z0GfG
Hasbajrami plead guilty to charges of attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization, alleging that he intended to travel to the Federally Administered Tribal Area of Pakistan, where he expected to join a terrorist organization, receive training, and ultimately fight against U.S. forces and others in Afghanistan and Pakistan. However, after his guilty plea, while he is serving time in prison, prosecutors admitted some of the evidence against him came as a result of privacy violations, unlawful FISA-702 searches.
Hasbajrami sought to have the evidence against him thrown out on 4th amendment grounds (fruit of the poisoned tree) and withdraw his guilty plea. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals denied Hasbarjami’s blanket evidence suppression motion for the exclusion of all FISA Section 702 collection in his case but did not weigh in on whether the warrantless Section 702 database queries were constitutional, instead remanding the case back to Judge Hall for a review of that question.
Judge DeArchy Hall received the case again and reviewed all of the government motions against the request to suppress the evidence. What results is a very well-constructed explanation and opinion of how FISA-702 was misused in the case
https://t.co/G8vz8z0GfG
The judge determined that U.S. government officials did factually violate the technical rules and procedures for the use of FISA-702 searches, and the DOJ should have gone to court to obtain a warrant to look at Hasbajrami’s private communication.
In essence, yes, the 4th amendment protections of Hasbajrami were violated. However, the issue of overturning the resulting evidence becomes a matter of legal distinction.
The defendant, who admitted guilt (twice) did not claim the evidence was a result of misuse or a wrongful approach in searching the NSA’s library, from which FISA-702 search results are determined (a structural flaw in the defense motion). Instead, the defendant filed a suppression motion on the issue of his 4th amendment rights being violated.
The judge opinion holds that the FBI’s Section 702 queries violated the Fourth Amendment; however, the court ultimately denied the defendant’s motion to suppress the resulting evidence on separate grounds.
The value in the ruling by Judge Hall, is a few fold:
First, it is an excellent review of the FISA-702 origin and all of the constitutional arguments that surround the controversial law.
Second, the ruling clearly shows that FISA-702 searches are currently being used unlawfully and continually by government officials.
Third, the ruling clearly shows how “backdoor” 702 searches are violations of the Fourth Amendment. [Albeit in this case, of no value to the argument put forth by Hasbajrami.]
The ruling essentially underpins the reality that government officials are using their access to the complete library within the NSA collection and storage database to conduct searches of U.S. communication that removes the constitutional protections of the 4th amendment.
Mr Agron Hasbajrami was ensnared by this surveillance process and admitted his guilt thereafter.
However, the issue is not Hasbajrami’s intent, or even his guilt. The issue is this constant surveillance state, the metadata library and the tens-of-millions of searches that are done on the private papers of American citizens. In essence we have a domestic surveillance state looking for suspect people who are operating against the interests of government.
Do not forget, now we have over 10,000 log-in portals with access to the NSA database, including an FBI workstation at the DC office of the Perkins Coie law firm that ties into the NSA database {GO DEEP}. Perkins Coie is a national security contractor with the DOJ and FBI .
Mr. Hasbajrami was caught wanting to join a terrorist organization. However, as we have witnessed in the reality of the J6 roundup, a “terrorist organization” may well be defined as your local “patriot group”, “parent’s advisory committee” or designated “anti-vaxxers.”
♦ The Fourth Amendment aspect to the ‘warrantless’ government capture of American citizen records has never been fully argued in court; the modern definitions are opaque, and the govt has a vested interest in retaining the untested status quo. The last thing the executive and legislative branches of government want is a valid 4th Amendment privacy case to reach the Supreme Court.
Great meeting with U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton to discuss his nomination to serve as Director of @ODNIgov. I am confident that he will protect the nation from our adversaries.
After Democrats played politics with our national security and let FISA Section 702 lapse, it is imperative that we vote to confirm him and renew Section 702 as soon as possible, especially given current threats to American interests worldwide. I look forward to voting in favor of Clayton’s nomination in the Senate Intelligence Committee & confirming him when his nomination comes to the Senate floor.
Great conversation today @reindsummit in Detroit on AI, drones, quantum, and American leadership in emerging technologies.
The reindustrialization of America is well under way. 🇺🇸
.@VP’s Fraud Task Force and @DOLOIG have successfully recovered $512 MILLION stolen by fraudsters. The Trump-Vance Administration is winning the War on Fraud. 🇺🇸
"We're fundamentally saying if the Iranians transform how they interact with the world, we will transform how the world economy interacts with Iran." — VP Vance 🔥
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SHOW NO MERCY! More arrests!