The issue of Canada not meeting NATO’s prerequisite for membership, 2% of GDP expended on maintenance & modernization of our military, is a surprise to no one. Canadian governments have officially reaffirmed our agreement on this dozens of times for decades… while always stealing from this fund to buy votes through social programs. We lie because we think the US has our defence covered.
But when it comes to securing our borders against criminal enterprises and illegal migration, Canada lies about stopping the flow for very different reasons. Our bureaucrats like the $300 billion of illicit trade & money laundering flowing across the 49th and stimulating a whole sub-economy of graft and commissions for services rendered or eyes averted.
Look at the scandals without assuming our career bureaucrats are inept; that bizarre excuse we Canadians so readily accept. Is it truly possible to increase ArriveCAN’s budget to 750 times its original amount & have no red flags pop up in the process? Is it truly possible to spend 8 years & $577 million developing software to set collections & duty amounts at commercial border crossings… as CBSA claims to have done in the CARM roll-out. And diligently destroying WayFare Identifiers Inc (WFI), whose R&D had already proven better solutions for both the ArriveCAN & CARM functionality, when WFI had cost taxpayers nothing… these all have one thing in common. They benefit organized crime by seeming to be proactive while truly lowering our border defences.
It has nothing to do with being inept and everything to do with big business. Greed is driving Canadian bureaucrats to abuse power. The only downsides are drug deaths, lives stolen to prostitution, human trafficking, and money laundering massive enough to distort our economy.
Corruption is the major reason Canada is being threatened with a 25% US tariff… and it’s time for Canada to grow up.