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.
Canada in the Mirror: the Charter at 44 and the Politics of the Sign Keeper
On March 25, 2026, 123 nations voted at the United Nations to declare the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity. Canada abstained. Two days later, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms turns 44. On Nancy Perin, historian Bryan Palmer’s thesis about Canada’s structural colonial capitalism meets the documented record of Prime Minister Carney’s Davos speech and his government’s actual conduct. The sign, it turns out, was never removed from the window. A companion piece, The Battle-Tested State, follows with the full institutional evidence.
