The Battle-Tested State: Canada’s Arms Trail, the Bank of War, and the Digital Control
On March 25, 2026, Prime Minister Carney promoted the Defence, Security, and Resilience Bank—a multilateral institution his government is building to finance weapons procurement for NATO allies. The same day, Canada abstained on a UN resolution condemning the transatlantic slave trade. On Nancy Perin, the full documented record: a decade of Canadian arms exports to Israel, the Crown corporation contract that kept shipping after the claimed embargo, Jacob Flickinger killed by the missile his government was buying, and the AI surveillance architecture tested in Gaza now running inside Canadian government systems.
