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The U.S. Congress is being asked to adopt legislation that could lead to Canada and the United States further integrating their enforcement of the border — including allowing U.S. officers to more freely operate on Canadian soil.
House Resolution 5518, introduced by New York Republican Rep. Nicholas Langworthy, calls on U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to “negotiate or amend existing agreements with the Government of Canada, as appropriate, for integrated cross-border aerial, maritime and land law enforcement operations.”
The bill also calls for U.S. officers to operate in Canada, and for Canadian officers to operate in the U.S., "for the purpose of enhancing border security or law enforcement co-operation or operations, including for the purposes of conducting operations in the land, air and maritime domain.”
The text does not make it clear whether this could allow U.S. officers to operate in Canada unaccompanied by a Canadian official. Langworthy’s office has not yet granted an interview with the congressman nor answered questions sent by CBC News last week.
While some U.S. officers currently work at Canadian airports, Langworthy’s bill could see their ability to operate in Canada increase significantly.
Langworthy’s bill is co-sponsored by 13 Republican members of the House of Representatives including upstate New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, part of congressional leadership and considered a close ally of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Talk elbows up, but negotiate annexation.
We’ve given up too much already and now they want increased border agents in our territory?
The same agencies populated by brownshirts. Fuck this all to hell.
He said a number of questions would have to be negotiated, like whether a U.S. officer who arrests someone on Canadian soil would be able to apply U.S. law, and whether they would be obliged to turn a suspect over to Canadian authorities.
We’re negotiating on this point? We elected Carney to stand up for Canada. We wanted DeGaulle, not fucking Phillipe Pétain’s Vichy government.
We need a pure anti-US party.
Uh, let’s keep the fascist regime out of our country. Less integration with Americans is a good thing.
Fuck no, stay out you savages.
The US can fuck right off instead.
They’re already assholes in our airports, fuck off letting them anywhere outside of Pearson.
I do not want this.
I’m American and I don’t want this for you, either!
Keep these fucking pigs out of my country. One kind of foreigner I absolutely am bigoted against are ICE agents.
Sad to say, but if I’m being honest, I think we are very much headed for even deeper integration and subservience to the US.
When Carney first got elected, he looked to the UK and EU for support. They both bent the knee to the US pretty quickly. Now, he’s looking more to APAC, but the reality is, we’re trapped.
US strategy is pushing the war with Russia onto Europe so they can focus on China. Europe will be dependent on the US for support, and if they’re wrapped up with Russia there’s no way they’re coming to our aid against the US.
The US will aim to consolidate control over the Americas and the resources needed to fuel their war before things kick off with China. We will be expected to integrate into the Golden Dome, feed them our rare earth and other resources, engage our manufacturing to support them, and to do all as we are told to do. If not, regime change comes our way or Alberta might just be our Crimea.
None of our elites will want war with the US, they won’t have anyone to turn to, and they’ll see the opportunities for their own benefit in the arrangement. Even if it’s not their preference, they will go for an arrangement where Canada gives up all but an illusion of sovereignty while they make money and preserve their positions of authority with an appearance of some legitimacy in Canadian society. Better for them than taking on the risks of conflict with the US.
Canadians will be persuaded to go along with it by being sold the story of the greater evils to be faced in Russia and China and the illusion of Canadian sovereignty being preserved even as we are a completely subservient resource colony. A lot of Canadians will also be happy just to see the prospect of making money as resource industries, agriculture, and manufacturing all ramp up. Meanwhile, our policies around security, immigration, economy, financial services etc. all become whatever the US tells us.
Well, that’s awfully fucked up and terrifying.
A first step towards treating Canada as US territory. And I don’t trust Carney’s government to stand up against it.
If we can’t independently control our borders and internal economic and other policies, without being able to democratically influence the decisions affecting us, made in Washington, then we’re defacto territory. I’m not saying we’re there, but rather saying that we don’t have to be formally annexed to function as a territory.
Where is the Canadian side of this legislation? Where is the petition to stop this shit?
I’d email my MP but unfortunately NDP lost in my region and we have Aaron Fucking Gunn who is just a little PP Parrot that wants stronger ties with the US like all the Conservatives.
where does it say Canada is agreeing to this?
Bill C-2 covers information sharing, and petition e-6838 is opposing it, and this is the second time I’ve heard of this cooperation between border control agencies and last heard of it being discussed between Carney and Trump, though I do not recall agreements made. If this is being introduced in the US, then it seems likely some agreement was made or is expected to be made, so I’m asking if someone knows of existing corresponding legislation or petitions.
But this isn’t US thugs having powers to operate in Canada.
You mean the information sharing? No its just data they can use if they decide to go through with annexation of the country so they can find all the people they want to send to the Gulags or prosecute for thought crimes right away.
Fuck this
Abso-fucking-lutely not
This path only ends badly.
