Fire Bill Blair.

Canada's minister of defense, Bill Blair, failed, in a Feb. 12, 2025, CBC News video, "51st state remarks are 'disrespectful and concerning,' Blair says," to explain how his ministry is "prepared to stand up for our country" in the face of Donald Trump's threats to our sovereignty.

Blair goes on an on about how wonderfully Canada, through its membership in NORAD, which was founded in 1958 at the height of the long since ended Cold War, is " keeping the continent safe" by advancing the U.S. empire's aim to achieve nuclear first-strike capability against its imaginary enemy the Russian Federation.

The USSR – whose military posture motivated the formation of NORAD – dissolved 34 years ago. With the exception of U.S. nuclear threats to the Russian Federation with its Aegis Ashore nuclear-capable missile bases about 150 km from Moscow in Poland and Romania, there is no offensive nuclear threat to Canada or anyone else today.

Russia's nuclear doctrine is and always has been strictly defensive, stating it will use nuclear weapons only in the event of an existential attack on its territory. U.S. nuclear policy does not and never has ruled out a first strike on its enemies.

Blair's job is to defend Canada, not to defend the U.S. from imaginary threats to it from countries the U.S. wishes to destroy.

Blair brags that "Canada has committed $36.8 billion to NORAD modernization," but this does not advance Canada's defense. Rather, it increases Canada's exposure, by increasing the force-projection capabilities of the U.S. aimed at the Russian Federation, as a frontline state.

Blair's job is to defend Canada's borders from attack by hostile forces, of which only one exists in the world today, and that is the United States.

Why are Canadian frigates accompanying U.S. warships on aggressive transits through the Taiwan Strait to provoke hostility from the People's Republic of China? Canada should be selling grain, agricultural products, fertilizer, and energy to China, not participating in U.S. aggression aimed at China.

Blair goes on and on about what Canada is doing to help the U.S. dominate the world militarily when he should be talking, as Canada's minister of defense, about defending Canada. For example, what is Blair doing about defending Canadians against weapons manufactured in the U.S. being smuggled into our country?

Canada is not "the continent."

As a small sovereign, independent nation, we should not be dependent on one great power for our security. Canada should not belong to NATO, the ostensible reason for whose existence disappeared 34 years ago, but should be neutral and depend for our security on robust trade and diplomatic relations with all the countries of the world so that when faced with aggressive behaviour by the U.S., as now, we can dial down our interactions with it and increase our involvement with our other friends.

Blair seems proud that as a member of NORAD, we are a frontline state in the U.S.'s war of aggression against the Russian Federation. How does this help Canada? Canada should be facilitating deescalatory talks between Russia and the U.S. as well as between China and the U.S., not posturing as the U.S.'s "ally."

Neither Russia nor China is our enemy. Nor, contrary to what U.S-dominated Canadian media pound into the minds of the Canadian public, do either wish to rule the world. That – "Full Spectrum Dominance" – is the stated ambition of the U.S., and we should have nothing to do with it.

If the U.S. wants radar on Canada's soil, it should be allowed by contract and on terms that are acceptable to us on the basis of our own security, meaning Canada must not allow the U.S. to make us a nuclear target.

Blair does not understand what his job is and should be fired. He blathers on about how Canada should be "prepared to defend" ourselves against U.S. aggression and says nothing about how he intends for us to do this.

A real defense minister would have a plan in place and have begun training civil defense cadres already upon the utterance of threats to our sovereignty by the president of the U.S.

Vague handwaving about how "proud" we are to be Canadian is hardly a defense policy, let alone one worthy of a so-called minister of defense for Canada.