🇨🇦 NATO intern, Canadian passport, total vetting failure

A Canadian intern at NATO’s Supreme Headquarters in Belgium is now facing spying charges, suspected of working for a third country and linked to a criminal organization, according to Belgian prosecutors. That is not a small glitch. That is the ruling class telling you our institutions are secure while a foreign-linked suspect walks straight into one of the West’s top military nerve centres with a maple leaf on the paperwork, as reported.

And right on cue, Ottawa serves up the usual tranquilizer: trust the agencies, strong relationships, nothing to see here. Of course. The same managerial geniuses who turned borders into suggestions and citizenship into a commodity now want applause for post-facto damage control. NATO says operational readiness was unaffected, which is bureaucrat for please keep funding the machine. This is what sovereignty erosion looks like in real time: weak screening, elite complacency, and Canada reduced to a convenient access badge in a global security circus we bankroll but barely control.

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