I’ve yet to see the source material but there’s been an alleged leak describing America’s plans to annex southern Ontario. I say alleged leak because it could very well just boil down to speculation based on comments made by the U.S President. I’m sick of saying his name.
Here’s what’s true.
In 1908 the British negotiated a treaty over the great lakes and finalized the international border between the US and Canada, which at the time was still a British colony.
The U.S President, don’t make me say his name, told our now former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that he wanted to revise the border. He didn’t ‘believe’ in the treaty he told Trudeau. The treaty that he was referencing? Yes, the very same one.
Here’s speculation.
This image has been floating around attached to the “leak” describing the annexation of the most populated region in Canada. The red line represents the adjusted border. Meaning that America has its eyes on establishing a new border, nullifying the 1908 treaty - just north east of Kingston, Ontario. Also home to CFB Kingston and Royal Military College, two assets that I’m sure a potential invader would like to have underfoot.
Militarily this would be right on the doorstep of Canada’s Capital, Ottawa. Approximately a two-hour drive should they want to push things any further.
Possibly more importantly and in-league with the current attempt to financially cripple Canada, if the United States controlled this piece of Ontario it would control the largest population concentration. Industrial centers like Hamilton or Oshawa, the massive economic and cultural hub that is Toronto. All those people no longer paying tax dollars and all those business not working to the benefit of Canada. It would be financially crippling to the rest of the nation. Why try to annex the whole country? When you can make the entire country submit to financial realities.
It’s a grim prospect and one that’s unsettling. My friends and family in Kingston and Prince Edward County essentially on the front line. While myself and my immediate family on the north-eastern side of this potential border in the Ottawa Valley, also on the opposite side of the front line.
Who would come and help us? We’ve seen Europe gearing up to take on Russia in Ukraine due to America’s about face. Traditional NATO allies we’d hope might come to our aid will likely have their hands full. Was that part of the master plan?
If being part of the British Commonwealth doesn’t require the U.K to support us, then what’s it good for? Their Prime Minister seems to be in duck-and-cover mode just hoping to avoid any US tariffs. Only a political stuntman who heads the ‘Liberal Democrats’ party in the UK, named Ed Davey, has gone public with his support for Canada. Ed Davey, by the way, bungee-jumped off a giant crane to rally voters, shovelled sheep manure on a Welsh farm to protest tax hikes for farmers and tumbled off a paddle board to underscore the risk of raw sewage in British waterways. For Canada, he recently threw a giant ‘Poutine Party’ at a Canadian themed pub in London and came bursting in through a giant Canadian flag. Davey led his party to a third-place position at British Parliament in their last election. I guess it’s better than nothing? but hardly the type of reaction I think most of us would’ve hoped for.
Just a reminder. Canada was founded on the idea that we aren’t America. So Ironic that part of this alleged annexation would include Loyalist Township. Literally named ‘Loyalist’ because it was founded by British Loyalists who fled north during the revolution and wanted nothing to do with America’s independence.
Is it true? maybe. It certainly follows Putin’s playbook. He’s not even hiding it.