A new poll suggests almost a third of Canadians say the United States might attempt "direct action" to take control of Canada, with a fifth of Americans agreeing.
We’ve got a third of Canadians believing the US may invade Canada and most Canadians view the US as the single greatest threat to our sovereignty, and yet we somehow keep making moves that integrate us more with US security strategy. We are doing nothing to cut them out or to harden our southern border, but we get legislation that aligns us more with the NSA on information security, we get military spending focused on their demands for Arctic security thousands of kilometers away from where all our population is clustered right next to the border with them, we get cybersecurity integration with Microsoft in Ottawa and commitment to use of their AI in our public services…
Despite the rhetoric of independence and the actual economic diversification, it looks like we’re still on the same team when it comes to security. There is a huge gap between public perceptions of threat and what’s actually being done at a policy level.
It’s a third that leans poor and less educated. Fancy people are still on a “business as usual” kind of wavelength, which is also how it’s been allowed to get this bad.
We’ve got a third of Canadians believing the US may invade Canada and most Canadians view the US as the single greatest threat to our sovereignty, and yet we somehow keep making moves that integrate us more with US security strategy. We are doing nothing to cut them out or to harden our southern border, but we get legislation that aligns us more with the NSA on information security, we get military spending focused on their demands for Arctic security thousands of kilometers away from where all our population is clustered right next to the border with them, we get cybersecurity integration with Microsoft in Ottawa and commitment to use of their AI in our public services…
Despite the rhetoric of independence and the actual economic diversification, it looks like we’re still on the same team when it comes to security. There is a huge gap between public perceptions of threat and what’s actually being done at a policy level.
It’s a third that leans poor and less educated. Fancy people are still on a “business as usual” kind of wavelength, which is also how it’s been allowed to get this bad.
I know a good number of highly educated and well-off Canadians who consider it a possibility.
Good to hear! That hasn’t been my experience.
I wonder what kind of hard numbers there are on that.