🇨🇦 Canada war-gamed a U.S. invasion. A former NORAD commander explains why

The real story is not the war game. It is that Canada’s own defence credibility got so hollowed out that even allies are openly questioning Ottawa’s political commitment. The retired NORAD commander basically says the military relationship held, while the politicians supplied delay, vague promises, and money that somehow never arrived under the last administration. Trudeau-era unseriousness does not disappear because Mark Carney now discovers the Arctic exists. Even the invasion scenario is framed as an extreme tail risk, while the actual threats listed are Arctic, missile, drone, and homeland defence gaps, as reported.

That is the liberal formula in one neat package: perform sovereignty theatre, neglect sovereignty in practice. Ottawa can posture about independence from Washington all it wants, but a country that underfunds defence, delays strategy, and lets its commitments erode is not asserting sovereignty. It is borrowing security while talking big. And of course the technocratic class now wants a blueprint for the next century. Translation: another elite-managed continental arrangement while Canada keeps paying for decadence at home and scrambling for seriousness abroad.

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