We don’t have new fighter jets. So we can’t keep up with our American allies; we can’t properly patrol the skies against new generation Russian aircraft; we’re hopelessly outclassed by China’s burgeoning navy. We don’t really have any peacekeepers left in the world. We even cancelled the annual war games simulation at Cold Lake, called Maple Flag.

But we’ve got the resources and manpower and budget to cause political compliance? To suppress dissident voices?

On last night's episode of The Ezra Levant Show, we looked at the “quashed” Canadian Armed Forces plan to run an anti-“Civil Disobedience” plan with to reinforce “Canadian public compliance with suppression measures.”