I think you have the entire reasoning behind those bills, backwards. What Canada is trying to achieve through that legislation, isn’t closer integration with the US intelligence apparatus…it’s intended to build a Canadian version that is separate and distinct from it. Those bills are literally meant to make Canada less reliant on US sources for their intelligence, not more. Canada would have their own version of Palantir, exclusively under Canadain control, specificaly so that we no longer need Palantir, itself. One criticism that the US has about them, is that now Canada will have the ability to spy on US citizens that happen to interact with Canadian telecommunications systems, as well as US systems that operate in Canada. That would be instrumental in anticipating any coordinated insurgency attempts by the US into Canadian territory.
Which segues directly into the other topic you bring up…weapons. There are an unfortunate amount of people in places like Alberta that would probably end up fighting for the US, rather than defend against them. This is just a sad reality, right now. There is a concerted effort being made by US conservative groups to actively turn Candian Conservatives against their own country. Canadian intelligence has been aware of these efforts for years now, and that influence is growing more openly now that Trump is in charge. Separating the Canadian intelligence apparatus from the US, while requiring a more detailed regstry of who owns what kinds of firearms, just seems like a common sense preparation for that possibility.
And a lot of folks who think Carney is being somehow capitulant to the US, seem to have forgotten that until we are prepared to defend ourselves, we can’t just turn completely hostile towards them. Especially with Trump in charge. His skin is so thin, that if Carney plays things too aggressively, Trump will pull the trigger on an invasion sooner rather than later…and we are not ready for that. At all. Until we are, we have to play nice, while quietly building up the infrastructure we need to defend ourselves against the possibility that we will inevitably become their next target.
You mentioned the F-35s. We already agreed to buy 30 of them, and were expected to buy 58 more…but are now looking to buy Gripens from Sweden instead. The obligations to buy those first 30 F-35s were already locked in, so going back on that contract would have resulted in severe retaliation from the US…but the rest were still under negotiation, so Canada is under no obligation to buy more. And it doesn’t appear that we will. Carney has been negotiating with the EU for almost everything we will be building, moving forward. This includes building our own home-grown drone industry, with no reliance on American supply chains.
I think you have the entire reasoning behind those bills, backwards. What Canada is trying to achieve through that legislation, isn’t closer integration with the US intelligence apparatus…it’s intended to build a Canadian version that is separate and distinct from it. Those bills are literally meant to make Canada less reliant on US sources for their intelligence, not more. Canada would have their own version of Palantir, exclusively under Canadain control, specificaly so that we no longer need Palantir, itself. One criticism that the US has about them, is that now Canada will have the ability to spy on US citizens that happen to interact with Canadian telecommunications systems, as well as US systems that operate in Canada. That would be instrumental in anticipating any coordinated insurgency attempts by the US into Canadian territory.
Which segues directly into the other topic you bring up…weapons. There are an unfortunate amount of people in places like Alberta that would probably end up fighting for the US, rather than defend against them. This is just a sad reality, right now. There is a concerted effort being made by US conservative groups to actively turn Candian Conservatives against their own country. Canadian intelligence has been aware of these efforts for years now, and that influence is growing more openly now that Trump is in charge. Separating the Canadian intelligence apparatus from the US, while requiring a more detailed regstry of who owns what kinds of firearms, just seems like a common sense preparation for that possibility.
And a lot of folks who think Carney is being somehow capitulant to the US, seem to have forgotten that until we are prepared to defend ourselves, we can’t just turn completely hostile towards them. Especially with Trump in charge. His skin is so thin, that if Carney plays things too aggressively, Trump will pull the trigger on an invasion sooner rather than later…and we are not ready for that. At all. Until we are, we have to play nice, while quietly building up the infrastructure we need to defend ourselves against the possibility that we will inevitably become their next target.
You mentioned the F-35s. We already agreed to buy 30 of them, and were expected to buy 58 more…but are now looking to buy Gripens from Sweden instead. The obligations to buy those first 30 F-35s were already locked in, so going back on that contract would have resulted in severe retaliation from the US…but the rest were still under negotiation, so Canada is under no obligation to buy more. And it doesn’t appear that we will. Carney has been negotiating with the EU for almost everything we will be building, moving forward. This includes building our own home-grown drone industry, with no reliance on American supply chains.