Canada Needs You

If there is anything emblematic of how much enmity the Trump regime has for Canada, it is this petty American action with regard to the cross-border library in Stanstead, Québec (the same one that fascist Barbie-doll Kristi Noem mocked Canada in a few weeks ago).

When this library was built, Canada and the US literally still had plans for how to wage war against one another (War Plan Red for the US and Defence Scheme No. 1 for Canada) - something that most of us now consider ridiculous and unnecessary. Or something, at least, that we used to consider ridiculous and unnecessary.

From a conventional military perspective we are actually much better prepared today than we were in the 1920s and 1930s, but we also no longer have the entire British Empire backing us up. If America attacks, NATO isn’t coming to our aid. Neither is the Commonwealth, or anyone else - at least not in the way most people hope they would. We’ll be on our own - the same geography that makes the US our only natural enemy also makes them our only natural ally.

So what do we do? We rearm, but rearmament takes time and industrial capacity, so what can Canadians do to help their country in the meantime. In my opinion:

1) We can elect a government which will take the threat to Canada seriously, and which is comprised of people with some experience and expertise in dealing with economic challenges. At this point that can only be a continued Liberal government under Mark Carney;

2) We can continue to support Canadian businesses and Canadian workers. Where there is no Canadian option, buy European or from one of our Commonwealth friends. And where all else fails, buy from those American companies which have taken a stand against Trump and his policies. Yes Costco is American but they treat their employees right, they’ve kept their DEI policies in place and they source many of their products in Canada.

3) We (if you’re still under 55) can go to the local Canadian Forces Recruiting Centre and start the process of joining - either Regular Force or Reserve. It won’t matter how many tanks or airplanes the government buys if the CAF does not have enough people to operate and maintain them; and

4) I hesitate to write this one, but I think we’re at that point now: we can sign up for civilian firearms training and go to our local Canadian Tire to buy a rifle and ammunition. That may still sound alarmist - hell it is alarmist - but the CAF alone is never going to be larger than the US military. If Trump’s mental illness does result in an order to attack Canada, and if the US military actually follows that order, then it will be necessary for every Canadian to participate in our defence.

To be clear, the point of all this is not to threaten America - it is to make it clear that Canadians are prepared to defend Canada, and hopefully through that deter any physical attacks against our sovereignty.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/us-border-canada-quebec-stanstead-library-1.7489528