🇨🇦 Ottawa discovers security matters after the breach

A Canadian NATO intern gets arrested in Belgium on espionage charges, and only then does Gary Anandasangaree promise to get to the bottom of it. Brilliant. The suspect was flagged by SHAPE security and Belgium’s military intelligence, not by Canada’s vaunted screening machine, as reported. Ottawa now says it will check whether she also worked for Canadian agencies. That is not reassurance. That is an admission that our own government may not know who it cleared, where they went, or what they accessed.

This is the Trudeau-era state in miniature: endless lectures about disinformation, extremism, and online harms, while the real-world basics of sovereignty and counter-intelligence are handled like a student group project. NATO security catches the problem, Belgium makes the arrest, and Canada holds a microphone. When a government is obsessed with DEI optics, open-border ideology, and globalist image management, competence becomes optional. A serious country protects its institutions before the scandal, not after the press release.

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