Jason Kenney
Role at the time: Former Premier of Alberta and former Canadian minister of national defence, posting on X
Statement summary
Former Alberta premier and Canadian defence minister Jason Kenney wrote on X that, in the midst of what he called a hot war against a mortal enemy of the United States, the U.S. Secretary of War finds time to troll folks at a cadet camp for teenagers in Vernon, B.C. He asked his friends in the United States what was going on.
“In the midst of a hot war against a mortal enemy of the United States, the Secretary of War of the world’s only super power finds time to troll folks at a cadet camp for teenagers in Vernon, British Columbia To our many friends in the great United States of America: What’s going on?”
The Globe and Mail report, with a report from The Canadian Press, on the response across Canada's political spectrum to Hegseth's post about a Canadian cadet training centre. It quotes Prime Minister Mark Carney, B.C. Premier David Eby, Jason Kenney, Dimitri Soudas and MP Garnett Genuis, and the Pentagon's reply.
Why we used this label
The case asks whether Hegseth's post mocked Canadian cadets. Kenney wrote that, in the midst of what he called a hot war, the U.S. Secretary of War finds time to troll folks at a cadet camp for teenagers, and asked what was going on. That criticizes the post and describes it as trolling young people, so we labeled it Condemned.