{"id":328773,"date":"2025-05-30T09:29:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T13:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truthout.org\/?post_type=to4_article_post&p=328773"},"modified":"2025-05-30T09:29:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T13:29:48","slug":"despite-anti-trump-mandate-canadas-new-pm-pushes-golden-dome-missile-system","status":"publish","type":"to4_article_post","link":"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/despite-anti-trump-mandate-canadas-new-pm-pushes-golden-dome-missile-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Anti-Trump Mandate, Canada\u2019s New PM Pushes \u201cGolden Dome\u201d Missile System"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For just $61 billion, Canada can get in on Donald Trump\u2019s latest scheme: a space-based North American missile defense system that Trump has called the \u201cGolden Dome.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump posted<\/a> the amount of money he would expect Canada to pay on his Truth Social account on May 27 \u2014 the same day that King Charles was in Ottawa to read the Speech from the Throne to open a new session of Parliament. Trump told Canadians that if Canada became the 51th state, the cost of being part of the program would drop to zero \u2014 something that Global News<\/em> reports<\/a> that the Prime Minister\u2019s Office had not heard from Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s plan revives a version of Ronald Reagan\u2019s spaced-based missile plan, popularly known as \u201cStar Wars.\u201d In a brief written in March 2025 for The Simons Foundation for Nuclear Disarmament, Ernie Regehr, senior fellow in Arctic security and defense, argues<\/a>, \u201cThe new iteration of strategic missile defence in the form of the Golden Dome is every bit as ambitious (and just as unrealistic) as was Reagan\u2019s Star Wars.\u201d<\/p>

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