Only Little People Demand Answers

It's not like they are entitled to them:

The Opposition Conservatives are demanding to know why the public was kept in the dark for nearly two weeks after an Iranian missile slammed into a Canadian airbase in Kuwait on March 1.

Conservative defence critic James Bezan said on Thursday that it was a “failure” of government communications and transparency for this information to be withheld for more than 11 days, pointing the finger directly at Prime Minister Mark Carney.

“Prime Minister Carney has had multiple occasions and press availability to disclose this fact,” said Bezan.

The newspaper La Presse reported earlier in the day that the Canadian section of the Ali Al-salem Air Base in Kuwait, nicknamed “Camp Canada,” appeared to be damaged by an Iranian missile, based on overhead satellite images of the area. The retaliatory strike was launched shortly after the U.S. and Israel launched a coordinated bombing campaign targeting the Iranian regime’s leadership in Tehran.

The story reported that no Canadian personnel were harmed in the attack, a detail that was confirmed on Thursday afternoon by Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand.

(Sidebar: were they to have been killed, would you silence their families?) 

Anand told reporters in Ottawa that Defence Minister David McGuinty affirmed to her Thursday morning that “all (Canadian) lives are accounted for.”

Carney demurred when asked directly, at a press conference in Yellowknife, N.W.T., why he didn’t inform Canadians about the Kuwait attack when it happened.

“I’m not the only spokesperson for the government, but I’ll just confirm that members of the Canadian Forces are all safe and sound,” said Carney.

(Sidebar: whatever you do, Carney, don't take this seriously or anything.) 

Carney reiterated that Canada was “not engaged” in the Israel and U.S.-led attacks on Iran.

**

Iran fired missiles at a military base housing members of the Canadian Armed Forces and the Carney government said nothing for almost two weeks.

When they finally did say something it was only because Montreal newspaper La Presse had reported on the matter.

There was significant damage to the Ali Al Salem air base in Kuwait, which houses Canadian, Italian and other NATO troops. No personnel were injured, thankfully, but the government should have informed the Canadian public.

Instead there was silence– followed by flippant remarks when Mark Carney was asked about this by reporters on Thursday.

“Well, I mean, I’m not the only spokesperson for the government,” the Prime Minister said.

He went on with his boilerplate remarks about all military members being safe and that Canada isn’t involved “in these actions” as he calls the military strikes against Iran.

Well, maybe we aren’t engaged in striking Iran, but they are engaged in striking out against us – and Carney decided to hide it.

That decision and his dismissive comment, once again aimed at a female reporter, show that he doesn’t feel he needs to be open and honest with Canadians – he can’t be bothered to level with us peasants.

Leave it to him, he’s in charge.

The Italians told their citizens about the attack the day it happened, as per a report from Agence France Presse.

“There was significant damage to the runway but no Italian personnel were injured,” Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani was quoted as saying.

“The Italian air force members at the Kuwait base that was attacked with missiles from Iran are all safe. They were in the bunker.”

Canadian Press reported that they first asked the Department of National Defence about the strike on March 6 and it took a week to get a response.

“We are aware of reports of strikes in the vicinity of Ali Al-Salem Air Base. For operational security reasons, we do not discuss assessments of damage or impacts to military facilities,” DND spokesperson Lt. Pamela Hogan told CP on Thursday after La Presse broke the story.

“Based on events since Feb. 27, efforts have focused on the force protection of Canadian Armed Forces members, including relocating some within the region, staying in their location if force protection is appropriate and where applicable, redeploying some back to Canada.”

This is completely unacceptable.

A hostile foreign government fired upon Canadian military personnel with ballistic missiles. The Canadian public should have been told about this and told promptly.

 It’s clear though the Prime Minister is struggling with how he should respond to this war given that many in his caucus oppose it.

His initial instincts were correct. He spoke out in favour of the strikes using clear and moral language.

“Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security,” he said on Feb. 28.

Since then, he has said he only supports these strikes with regret, that Canada could get involved, that Canada definitely won’t get involved, he has called for a ceasefire and given Canadians a muddled view of the thinking driving his government’s policies.

The regime in Iran was the one who killed 55 Canadian citizens, 30 permanent residents and 53 others with connections to Canada when they downed Flight PS 752 in January 2020. They are the same regime that tortured and killed Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi in 2003.

It’s the same regime that was kicked out of Canada for spying on our country and harassing our citizens. They have oppressed, tortured and murdered their own citizen by the thousands of late.

Now, they have shot at Canadians and our NATO allies and Mark Carney wants to stay silent about it.

This is not leadership. It’s cowardice.

Indeed, Canada has made its typical sanctimonious refusal to take part in a forty-seven year old conflict for pragmatic reasons.

(Sidebar: read cannot because it has no military capabilities, and it will be deep in the cold, cold ground before it uses the current crisis to mop up by selling some much-needed oil.)

But that has not stopped the Liberal government from allowing in the Iranian ruling class, the one that benefitted from leaving the average Iranian poor and oppressed:

Reports were emerging in January that even while Iranian citizens fed an uprising that led to the murder of roughly 40,000 of them at the hands of the Iranian regime, members of the regime have been quietly relocating to Canada. 

A news site called Justice In Conflict reported in January that “in 2021, a Tehran police chief was spotted at a Toronto-area gym. In 2024, it was reported that 700 Iranian nationals linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) resided in Canada – the same group that has been designated as a terrorist entity by the Canadian government. That same year, five Iranian regime figures faced deportation back to Iran.”  ...

Lantsman got into greater detail in an op-ed she penned for a Canadian news site called Todayville, where she said that hundreds of IRGC agents may be in Canada. 

While she acknowledged that Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, called that number inaccurate, he won’t confirm any number. 

“This week we learned from the Minister’s own agency that at least 239 people linked to the Iranian regime are living here in Canada and have had their visas revoked,” Lantsman wrote. “Yet of the 239 whose visas have been revoked, only one single person has actually been deported.” 

Lantsman’s numbers are based on news media reports, which she says suggests that 700 IRGC agents may be in Canada. 

When discussing the Canadian government’s seeming paralysis on the issue and the notion of deporting potential hostile residents from Iran, Lantsman said “senior bureaucrats blamed a lack of flights to Iran for the government’s inaction, as if the regime was not already a listed sponsor of terrorism long before the current hostilities.” 

She added that the government “went on about protecting ‘privacy,’ and suggested that some of these individuals might even be able to claim asylum. This is very much another self-own from Canada’s broken and abused refugee system, which is supposed to protect those fleeing violence, not protect those importing it.” 

**

🚨 She should be terrified! ☠️

GPS—there are hundreds, and growing, IRGC operatives, supporters, or assets of influence who almost certainly reside and operate in Canada, because institutional weakness and political timidity created the ideal sanctuary.

Canada has become a soft… https://t.co/NAv882dUyz

— Tony Seruga (@TonySeruga) March 14, 2026

** 

Ontario is set to make Premier Doug Ford and cabinet members' records secret as it "modernizes" freedom-of-information laws, a change the province's privacy watchdog warns will eviscerate public accountability.

Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement Minister Stephen Crawford, however, said his government is still "one of the most transparent governments in the history of Ontario," citing an open data catalogue, an audit of a regulator and a move eight years ago to publish financial information from the former Liberal government.

"We're very focused on transparency," he said Friday at a press conference.

Bull. Sh--.