Sovereign Borders, Sovereign Souls
There’s a particular kind of shame — a fearful hopeless anger— that wells up when you realize your country has no meaningful control over its own borders. The sacred canopy of our homeland is defended not by us, but by our elder and more capable brethren in America, who now intervene less out of alliance than necessity. Canada has become the frail junior almost-partner in a continental defense pact it no longer can meaningfully support.
February 18th and 19th of this year. That's two days in a row, in you're counting. Russian bombers breached North America's Air Defence Identification Zone. Intercepted — not by Canada — but by American F-35s, an E-3 AWACS, and Stratotankers. All U.S. hardware. All U.S. pilots. And thank God.
Canada? Silent. Dependent. Airspace outsourced, and not even paid for, just expected from the Pentagon… based on what? ….Gulp, no dice. Think we should scramble from Cold Lake and Bagotville, and launch our aging CF-188s against 5th-gen incursions? That’s a sure-fire fatal ceremonial airshow, not air supremacy. That’s when as a Canadian, you’re relieved to hear the voice of a U.S. Airforce pilot, “Roger command, unfriendly inbound bogey is in range and targeted, Fox3 is away.” #TargetDestroyed
The skies tell one story. The sea tells another. Last summer, Russian and Chinese warships held joint exercises in the Bering Sea, brushing North America’s watery doorstep. Oh, then the balloon. A Chinese surveillance platform floated across Canadian and U.S. territory for a full week in 2023. Shot down not over Canadian soil, not by Canadian hands, but by a U.S. F-22 off the coast of South Carolina.
And we call this sovereignty? Let me see your war face, Canada. No? Didn’t think so.
"Should We Not Be Able to Defend Ourselves?"
That’s not some fringe sentiment. It’s the sober warning of Lt.-Gen. Michel Maisonneuve, former Chief of Staff of NATO’s Allied Command. He’s right. Here’s the brutal truth: Canada can not defend itself — not in the air, not at sea, not in cyberspace, and certainly not in the culture war.
Why? Because the system was never built to. Not for modern threats. Not for Western interests. Not for this moment in history.
What’s the Answer?
Let’s end the fantasy that the Liberal-NDP coalition will ever equip us for serious deterrence.
Instead, Canada — and especially Alberta and the West — should lead the world in the one military domain where we can leapfrog legacy powers.
Autonomous, AI-Enabled Drone Warfare
Land. Air. Sea.
Swarming, self-piloting hunter-seeker systems.
AI-powered surveillance sentinels.
Resilient, redundant, and sovereign — always with a human in the loop.
We have the talent. We have the urgency. What we lack is national will — and federal permission. It’s time to drop both constraints.
Alberta: Always Under Attack, Never Allowed to Retaliate
Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet casually mocks Alberta’s identity, treating its people like foreign occupiers within their own federation. He recently scoffed:
“Alberta requires a culture of their own… I’m not certain that oil and gas qualifies.”
This isn’t debate. It’s a diplomatic assault on Alberta — and it’s normalized in Ottawa.
The feds keep Alberta’s industries landlocked.
Eastern elites smear its people and history.
And now, Steven Guilbeault returns to power — this time as Minister of "Canadian Identity and Culture."
The same man who harassed Alberta as Environment Minister now controls:
Federal media funding
Museum and cultural narratives
The DEI apparatus
He also holds the lever for "official languages" — often a proxy for sidelining Anglophones from public service and judicial posts. This is cultural blockade masquerading as policy.
The Stench of Synthetic Narrative Control
This is bigger than politics. What we’re witnessing is AI-managed narrative enforcement.
Top-down, closed-loop systems programmed to suppress dissent and erase regional identity.
But those systems are breaking down.
Danielle Smith sees it. You can hear the growing pulse of defiance in her statement:
“Albertans are proud Canadians that want this nation to be strong, prosperous, and united, but we will no longer tolerate having our industries threatened and our resources landlocked by Ottawa.”
Here’s the timeline:
Smith is calling the shots now.
Poilievre’s byelection clock is ticking.
Carney is circling and learning the hard way that Cabinet and Caucus is not a Corporation.
And the West is six months from let's call it "strategic escalation."
We believe in multipolar defense, decentralized sovereignty, and civic resilience to oppressive systems.
The next chapter won’t be won with polite speeches or procedural appeals.
It will be won by building what’s ours — and defending the spirt of the West from the Laurentian machine.