Canada’s national security faces such major challenges, that its state of “crisis” is alarming and enraging.“In December 2024 we find ourselves in a far worse situation across all areas of national security than we did in 2015,” said emergency response expert and retired Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) Lt.-Col. David Redman.Could heightened external and internal threats result from not only Liberal government incompetence — but also by design?Redman thinks so.“This government, in my opinion, has intentionally eroded and destroyed six out of six of our national interests in the last nine years,” Redman told the Western Standard.But why would anybody do that?"I believe that in particular, Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland truly believe that Canada is a post-national state, with no defined culture. They believe in the World Economic Forum vision of the world, and so work to dissolve and destroy nationalism, to ensure their vision for a post-national state world. Their vision leads to a world like the old Soviet Union, with all parts equally poor. They do not believe in wealth creation, just wealth redistribution. I believe that this is just communism by a different name, and Woke culture and DEI are tools to achieve it.""Obviously," continues Redman, "I believe exactly the opposite, that our nation is a democratic country, where citizens elect representatives at all orders of government to support their ethics, values, culture and national interests. But unelected people, like the WEF, should have no role in defining what is required for Canadians."Earlier this year, Redman detailed a six-point framework for national interests that include unity, national security, good governance, protection of rights and freedoms, economic prosperity and growth and personal and societal well-being.He concluded Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “finished what his father started,” driving Canada into failing freefall.Current security threats align with Trudeau’s twisted ideological view that Canada is a “post-national state” which Redman called “a dangerous and deadly conceit as well as a plain lie in today’s actual geopolitics.”Redman recently assessed Canada’s national security in Unfit for Duty: It’s time to Rebuild the Canadian Armed Forces in C2C Journal. (Three extracts will appear in The Western Standard, starting Saturday.)The under-equipped, under-manned CAF has 54,500 members, a minimum of 16,500 short. Only 58% of these are deployable, leaving Canada’s combat-capable force — army, navy and air force combined — at merely 31,600 — in a volatile world.But, the CAF is “only one element” of national security undermined by the Trudeau government.The state of intelligence, border services — including the coastguard and the Canadian Border Services Agency, policing services, and even the courts — must also be addressed with urgency, said Redman.“Canada is beset by national security challenges — arguably crises, that are shockingly deep — and broad interference in our institutions, worsening illegal protests in our streets, growing concern among our allies and trading partners, the open contempt of our adversaries, and the CAF’s own ‘death spiral,’” he wrote in Unfit for Duty.“If the CAF is the canary in the coal mine that signals the state of Canada’s national security, then the canary is on its back, fluttering.”Last month Trudeau insulted Canadians he’s put at risk by proclaiming he directed national security and intelligence adviser Nathalie Drouin to devise a new national security strategy. She’s tasked with providing him with analysis and intelligence necessary for him to fulfil his duties. The only takeaway from this professed sense of duty is the jerk has no shame.How much faith does Redman have in the Liberals pulling Canada out of crisis mode, or fixing the CAF’s “demoralized, depleted, decrepit” condition?“Absolutely none.”He pointed to promises made — funding, equipment, recruitment — since 2015 “not one of which they’ve ever met.”The Liberals consistently failed to meet Canada's required commitment to NATO of 2% of GDP in investment in defence.“Then in response to NATO getting very vocal in the past year they’ve announced other things and then simultaneously announced budget cuts for last year, this year and next year.”“They clearly have rhetoric on one side trying to pacify the NATO requirements. At the same time they're internally causing the CAF to do cuts with absolutely no plan on how to ever restore the most essential item — which is personnel.”Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives appear well-positioned to form the next government. But a quick fix is impossible.“I’d have faith but not complete faith. Pierre Poilievre quite correctly identified about eight months ago that Canada’s bankrupt. He doesn’t know how bankrupt yet. Until he actually wins an election and then becomes the prime minister, he won’t be able to see how bad the books are.”“I’m pretty sure that what we’re being told wouldn’t be near as bad as it is. He can’t commit to a 2% GDP for the CAF until he knows if he has any money to meet that commitment.”“I respect that. I also understand from things he said that he at least understands the full concept of national security which just isn’t the CAF. And that he will be working diligently to try and return national security and the CAF to a credible status as quickly as he can.”But Trudeau’s reckless immigration policy presents a formidable challenge.“Mass immigration impacts on every single one of those six national interests that define a democracy.”Unity is fractured “when you bring two million people into the country which don’t respect your ethics and values.”“Multiculturalism is never a strength especially when you spend taxpayer’s dollars to keep everyone of those cultures distinct and encourage them to stay distinct.”“When you bring peoples in who do not believe in the fundamental equality of women, you have just attacked the unity of our country, our national security, our form of government, our basic rights and freedoms because they don’t believe women have the same rights and freedoms. Which then buries down into our economic prosperity growth and our personal and societal wellbeing.”Canadians have been forced to tolerate attacks on their wellbeing.“Of the groups protesting in our streets, to talk about that element of it, we see these people expressing values that we do not believe in as a country, marching in our streets, disrupting traffic, making death threats against communities, supporting genocide against communities in our own country.”“Burning our flags. Disparaging any Canadian who stands up against them and using cancel culture to try and make their case the only case.”“That’s a complete breach of national security that this government has condoned.”Meanwhile, the Liberals lost track of “hundreds of thousands” of people here illegally or “awaiting some kind of process.”“With no methodology to remove them, you have just admitted you have intentionally destroyed the first two of our national interests which is unity and national security.”“It’s no wonder that our neighbour to the south finds us suspect.”A shocking 1,199 people on the terror watch list were apprehended trying to cross from Canada into the US between fiscal 2022 and October 2024, according to the US Customs and Border Protection.Canadians should be roaring to know how they got into Canada and how many remain posing an internal threat.President-elect Donald Trump intends to retaliate against terrorists and illegal drugs entering through the porous northern border by imposing a 25% tariff on all products.Under Trump, the superpower we share a continent with “will not stand for any of their borders being an entry way for threats to their national security.”“Canada has to ensure the sovereignty of our country, while also understanding this geopolitical situation in the world, and that if you want to work with the largest trading partner in the world, our neighbour to the south, and if you want to have economic relations with other democracies in the world you either step up and do your bit or they won’t trade with you.”“If we become a hotbed for activities that threaten western democracies, inside our country, that means we’re not doing our part.”Meanwhile, Trudeau’s resistance to curtailing foreign interference proved stunning.“The intelligence community has been warning this government for at least five years, if not longer, about the foreign interference in our country, in our elections, in our industry, in our bio laboratories. They have completely ignored the foreign interference.”So, until it’s gone, the Trudeau government itself poses a threat to national security.“But the happy Christmas message is we can turn this around and we can do it relatively fast.”“I believe it takes a leader who is ethically, fit, physically fit, intellectually fit, but who has the courage to immediately and vigorously apply them. I’m hoping a new government in Canada would do that as soon as they’re elected.”Canada must re-evaluate all partnerships economically and militarily.“I certainly do not believe we have the money, at least for the next three years, to support anything other the rebuilding of our national security inside our country. While making it clear to our allies that in so doing we will be working very vigorously to meet any commitments that we have or that we intend to continue.”Canadians must do more than kick the Liberals to the curb.In 2025, Canadians must stop supporting the “destruction of our academia,” stop “marches in our streets for foreign wars that have nothing to do with our country,” and stop supporting groups that don’t “respect our ethics and values i.e., our human rights and freedoms.”“They need to wake up to the fact that while all that’s happening in their own country, they are in fact, turning their own country into a steppingstone for communism and violence.”“We can make Canada into a country which once again is seen as an example of a functioning and solid democracy which it certainly isn’t now.”Finally, it’s worth noting Redman’s early warnings about the Liberal’s “incoherent” and dangerously flawed response to the COVID-19 ‘pandemic’ proved accurate.
