Has the Military Umbellla Collapsed?

Hardly.

We have neither the will (as there is no real Canada), nor the means, nor the market that does not include the Liberals' friends to stall on necessary armed forces vehicles to defend ourselves.

This is decades of letting our national pride and wherewithal die:

Civil defence is a whole-of-society endeavour. It entails individuals providing their communities with the energy and expertise needed to withstand a range of crises, alongside – and even in the absence of – government support.

Canadians have been here before. As Peter MacLeod, Canada’s leading voice on civic engagement, reminds us, our civil defence program trained civilians to respond to nuclear warfare during the Cold War. Volunteers co-ordinated fallout shelters, logistics, infrastructure protection, national stockpiles and emergency response, until the program ceased when global tensions eased in the 1980s.

Today, crisis and conflict are back, and Canadians find themselves in an increasingly dangerous world. The U.S. is no longer a dependable ally. Authoritarianism is on the march. Global humanitarian institutions have been hollowed out. Climate change feeds state fragility. Zero-sum relations overshadow diplomacy. And armed aggression compromises geopolitical stability.

Canada’s European allies have gotten the message.

 

Would this be the same Europe that expect us to bleed fields in Ukraine?

Climate change?

Are we meant to fight sand storms now?

THIS is why we cannot nor will not rebuild a standing army even for basic self-defense.