News Analysis
In just the past week, the United States played a key role in thwarting a potential school attack in Nova Scotia, in monitoring Montreal-bound commercial planes amid a suspected threat, and in shutting down an Iranian online tool of transnational repression that used Ontario domain registrations.
While these events weren’t linked, they do share a theme: in each case, the United States leveraged its security and military capabilities to help make Canada safer. It’s a pattern Canada’s security veterans have long warned about, highlighting the reliance on an ally’s warnings about threats on our soil instead of having Canadian agencies detect them first….