And yet everything that he is doing is doing the opposite of what is needed to harden Canada and Canadians against US invasion and occupation. Everything from the mass surveillance and privacy violating bills (in the name of public and child safety, even if the bills never mention children and predators against children) that directly works with Palantir and other US companies that are effectively an arm of the US government and military (before Palantir branched out to ICE, CBP, and corporations, they were purely a military contractor specifically made to fight against Iraqi and Afghani insurgents and counter their bombing campaigns… and they were fairly decent at their job, too).

Also I am going to say it… Mark Carney floated the idea of a civilianized defense force (or expanding a civil force to assist the military) that would have discharged soldiers or soldiers working among civilians in defense of the country… while also passing increasingly restrictive gun laws and prohibiting as many long guns as possibles. Something that has been tremendously expensive, unpopular, and has not received many prohibited firearms turned in. I hate to say it, but the way the US is acting means Canada might have to reorient to making sure as many civilians as possible can take up arms in defense of the country, and this does mean familiarity with weapons. Several European countries have decriminalized the AR-15 (like Sweden in the past couple of years) specifically out of fear of Russian invasion.

And due to the Beyond the Border Action Plan in 2011, any US cop can look up if a Canadian has a PAL or RPAL but may or may not have access to whatever firearms are registered in their name. I know this because when i was stopped in 2016 for failing to stop at a stop sign in the US, the cop called for backup and spent almost an hour talking to the RCMP and Canadian border guys if I had somehow brought an undeclared firearm with me because they say I had an application for an RPAL. It took me by surprise that they knew this.

I hate to say this, but if the US does start to invade Canada, I will abso-fucking-lutely be raided or interrogated by any occupying US forces to know what guns and ammunition I own or what would have became of them if they aren’t with me. This isn’t some paranoid gun nut conspiracy, this is what happens in every country that is occupied. When the US found an Afghan individual with a firearm, they took it from them. It didn’t matter if it was an AK or a single shot break-action shotgun. The British would literally threaten to kill anyone they suspected of storing any firearm in a community they were occupying.

But getting back to the increased monitoring and authoritarianism. The type of stuff like he wants in Bill C-22 and Bill C-34 which is likely to become law, will absolutely hand over tons upon tons of information on Canadians to the US that will make organizing a defensive war very, very bloody (for Canadians) and difficult. No matter how you look at it, there is no way the Canadian Armed Forces can stand up to the US military in a stand-up fight, meaning a guerrilla war is the only way it can go, and he is NOT preparing for that.

Iran is doing as well as it is because their entire strategy since 9/11 (or even prior) was to prepare for every possible way the US will attack it. Canada has not been doing the same and it is not going to do the same. Carney trying to go with the F-35 (a fighter I have been taking interest in since the early 2000s and I am shocked is still having that many problems) or a European fight is not going to make a difference. Israel and the US have absolutely done major work to hack into Iran’s internet and security infrastructure and Iran is a country that absolutely would have tried everything they could to stop that from Happening. In the meantime for decades the US and Canada have been actively sharing information on one another’s citizens with each other, and their intelligence apparatus is STILL unified despite relentless threats against us by Trump.

If Carney is trying to keep Canada safe, I am sorry to say this, he is doing a piss poor job of it. I’ve said it before and I will say it again. Mark works for capital and the banks. He has done things to favor the US that did nothing to change Trump’s attitude towards us.

Probably our best bet would be direct action brought into their cities like Ukraine is doing. We have the advantage of having thousands of Canadians already there. A guerrilla war brought to the states would hopefully reciprocate the slaughter that a bangbang war in Southern Ontario would bring.