Trumps plan for hemispheric control: Steve Bannon on why tariffs may only be the start – National [Video]

Sitting in the depths of Steve Bannon‘s chaotic War Room, Global News has an important question for the right-wing media mogul: How seriously should we be taking the president’s insistence that Canada should become the 51st state?

Very, apparently.

Bannon, a former top aide to U.S. President Donald Trump, says he knows exactly what’s going on. Dramatically shaking his rumpled grey hair, he tells me that we, Canadians, are “misreading the situation” before crossing his arms and launching into a spiel that he seems to have been waiting his whole life for — drawing from his experience serving in the navy, in the Pentagon and his master’s degree in national security studies.

He is unequivocal in his belief that Trump’s interest in Canada is strategic and geopolitical and that we’re missing the point by being fixated on tariffs and trolling.

“The world is now coming to Canada, and it’s coming in a big way,” Bannon says with …