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Charlie Angus

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Charlie Angus is a Canadian writer, musician and former New Democratic Party member of Parliament who represented the Ontario riding of Timmins—James Bay from 2004 to 2025.

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What DI has documented

DI has documented statements by Charlie Angus on International Relations, Military and Defense, and Sexism, among other topics. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.

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Statements by Charlie Angus

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Charlie Angus

Role at the time: Former New Democratic Party member of the Canadian Parliament for Timmins—James Bay, posting on his own Bluesky account

Condemned

Statement summary

Former Canadian MP Charlie Angus, posting on Bluesky with a link to an NBC News report on Trump's announced agreement with Denmark and Greenland, wrote: "Looks like Denmark just knelt and kissed the gangster's ring." He went on to ask whether the EU would back Canada "if push comes to shove" and said Canadians must count on themselves.

“Looks like Denmark just knelt and kissed the gangster's ring.”
Read the original post (opens in a new tab)Charlie Angus on Denmark and the Greenland agreement · Charlie AngusBluesky post 3mvtam7pl5k2i by @charlieangus104.bsky.social, created 2026-09-18T22:44:24.231Z (6:44 PM EDT); first sentence of the post.
Why we used this label

Angus does not dispute that description: in a post linking a report headlined with "permanent" control, he reads the announcement as Denmark yielding to Trump (the "gangster", in context) and denounces it in his own words. The closest competing label is “Challenged the characterization”, since he is reacting to a news framing of the deal. That loses because he disputes no description; he treats the announcement as a Danish concession and expresses a clearly critical evaluation of it.

Read statementTrump’s “permanent control” description of the announced U.S.-Denmark-Greenland security agreement
Portrait of Charlie Angus

Charlie Angus

Role at the time: Former New Democratic Party member of the Canadian Parliament for Timmins—James Bay, posting on his own Bluesky account

Condemned

Statement summary

Charlie Angus, a former New Democratic Party member of the Canadian Parliament, responded to the Pentagon standing by Hegseth's post by saying he was unsurprised it would support trolling Canadian teenagers who volunteer to serve, and that Canadians are proud of their cadets. The remainder of his post made separate allegations about the Pentagon's conduct that are his own characterisations and are not at issue in this case.

“I am not surprised that the Pentagon supports trolling Canadian teenagers who volunteer to serve our nation. We are proud of our cadets.”
Read the original post (opens in a new tab)Charlie Angus on the Pentagon's defence of Hegseth's cadet post · Charlie AngusBluesky post by @charlieangus104.bsky.social, 2026-09-02 00:19 UTC.
Why we used this label

Angus characterises it as trolling teenagers and answers it with an expression of national pride in the cadets, which rejects the conduct. The closest competing label is “Challenged the characterization”, since his target is the Pentagon's institutional defence rather than Hegseth's original post. That loses because he describes the underlying conduct itself as trolling young volunteers, which is an evaluation of the post and not only of the defence of it.

Read statementDid Pete Hegseth’s “this is real” post mock Canadian cadets?

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