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The biggest threat to Canada's national security is internal. It is the offshoot of an extraordinarily successful - because it remains largely undetected - coup that imposed itself on the country with the federal election of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) in 2006, and solidified its impacts with the election of a Conservative majority in 2011.

Author, poet, academic, and former Canadian diplomat Prof. Peter Dale Scott recently disclosed a wikileaks cable indicating that the International Republican Institute (IRI), an off-shoot of the CIA, and a subsidiary of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) helped install Stephen Harper as Canada's Prime Minister. This was the coup.

Point 12 of the cable explains that
"In addition to the campaign schools, IRI will be bringing in consultants who specialize in party renovation to discuss case studies of political parties in Germany, Spain, and Canada which successfully carried out the process"
The "party renovation" referenced in the cable is the "renovation" of Canada's indigenous Progressive Conservative Party into a Republican-inspired Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) that is largely subservient to the U.S Empire south of the border.

A similar, but more violent, "renovation" process occurred in 2009 when the democratically-elected government of Manuel Zelaya was overthrown in a U.S-orchestrated coup. It is also the same illegal "renovation" that is destabilizing Venezuela today, as the US interferes in the internal politics of that country, in what is often described as a "soft coup".

Dr. Anthony James Hall, Professor of Globalization Studies at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta Canada, explains the genesis of the Harper Conservative assault on the "Red Tory" traditions of Canada's indigenous conservative party in Flanagan's Last Stand? :
" The assault by the Harper-Flanagan juggernaut on the generally friendly orientation of Canadian conservatism towards the state, towards Indigenous peoples, and towards the institutions of Crown sovereignty helped clear aside obstacles to the importation from the United States of the Republican Party's jihad on managed capitalism. Flanagan and Harper took charge of the Canadian version of the Reagan Revolution aimed at transforming the social welfare state into the stock market state."
The implications of this conservative "jihad" are a threat to our national security on many levels. Stephen Harper's attacks on Canada's knowledge base are foundational to what can only be described as an endorsement of man-made climate change, which is likely the foremost threat to both humanity and to Canada. The Fifth Assessment Report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stresses the urgency to act now to mitigate catastrophic climate change, and yet the Harper government is moving Canada in the opposite direction. Most recently, the Harper government ratified a bilateral agreement with China, the Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPPA), which all but guarantees further expansion of Canada's Tar Sands, and an expansion of its carbon economy.

Canada's warmongering also bodes poorly for our collective security. The Conservative government has exploited the collective shock of the murder of Corporal Cirillo at Ottawa's National War Monument, and the subsequent shoot-out at the House of Commons, by falsely conflating the tragedy with "Islamic terrorism" and by using it as a pretext to wage illegal warfare against ISIS. Many Canadians, including Cpl. Nathan Cirillo's girlfriend, argue that we should be addressing the tragedy by improving Canada's capacity to provide mental health care for all of its citizens, yet that is not part of the Harper government's longstanding agenda.


Comment: As an aside, it is interesting to note what Corporal Cirillo's girlfriend, Andrea Polko said, as she clearly recognized the murder of her boyfriend for what it was, which is contrary to the Harper hyperbole planted as he geared the nation up for war:
Nathan Cirillo was my boyfriend. I loved him deeply, as did all of the family and friends who knew him and we all still mourn him every day. That being said, I feel I should weigh in on this ridiculous "was he a hero or was he not" debate. My response is this:

WAKE UP CANADA.

What we SHOULD be talking about is the dismal state of mental healthcare in our country.

What that deeply disturbed man killing my boyfriend SHOULD make Canadians focus on is how we can PREVENT another event like this through more accessible and effective mental health treatment programs that target the REAL source of this tragedy.

Stop tearing apart the honour and love bestowed upon a wonderful man who deserves every bit of it and start taking a good hard look at the awful, dysfunctional systems in our nation that this has shown us NEED TO CHANGE.

FOCUS ON WHAT REALLY MATTERS HERE AND WHAT WE CAN GAIN AS EXPERIENCE FROM THIS, AS A COUNTRY.

I am a very proud Canadian, but the fact that this hero/not business is what the media here and the general public has chosen to talk about, I must say I am very disappointed.

WE CAN DO, AND ARE, BETTER THAN THIS, CANADA.

For those of you who would like to share my words, please do so. I feel as though this is an important discussion that needs to continue happening.
While it is true that mental health is in a dismal state, which Andrea had the good sense to convey, one might also ask themselves in a broad context, why on humanities political landscape relating to mental hygiene is this so? Whether it is Canada, the United States or the EU, whether it is Harper, Obama, Netanyahu, Cameron or Hollande, it is the same. The very causation of the problems that faces humanity can perhaps best be described by the work by Andrew M. Lobaczewski, who authored Political Ponerology (A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes). To illiterate very briefly what Andrew was talking about on our politically macrosocial scale, he says:
When (normal) human beings fall into a certain state: the psychopaths, like a virulent pathogen in a body, strike at their weaknesses, and the entire society is plunged into conditions that lead to horror and tragedy on a very large scale.

Pathocracy - "A system of government where a small pathological minority takes over a society of normal people."
This is has been true of our past, it is our present and our future, unless, as Andrea Polko alludes with her mention of basic mental health, that we "wake up" to this reality. On a large political macrosocial scale, waking up is essential, as this political illness is being played out upon societies by the few, by the political psychopaths in power. This is further well describe in this article by Laura Knight-Jadczyk, Global Pathocracy, Authoritarian Followers and the Hope of the World .


Instead of working to stop the flow of money and arms to proxy mercenary armies - that are for the most part allied with the West to illegally topple the government of Syria's Bashar al-Assad - Canada has instead chosen to use military options, all but guaranteeing prolonged and deadly warfare which will exact a horrendous toll on innocent civilians.

This militarism will likely be a threat to Canada's security as well, since Canada will increasingly be associated with war crimes and imperial hegemony abroad, rather than peace-keeping.

The largely undetected coup, as revealed by the wikileaks cable, goes a long way towards explaining Canada's current predicament. This secret intervention in Canada's political landscape will continue to undermine our country's prosperity and security, unless we become more conscious of its insidious impacts and choose instead trajectories towards peace and national security. The foundational (though suppressed) evidence is shouting that we're on the wrong course, and that we need to make changes fast.


Comment: Here are a few further related articles: Harper: America's useful idiot and Be very afraid: Stephen Harper is inventing a new Canada