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SMOL: Canada missed out first true War of 1812 moment in over two centuries

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31.01.2026

Canada has chosen not to directly support our European allies, so there won’t be any Canadian boots in the snow on Greenland

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Speaking at the United Nations in September 2025, Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand emphatically made the out-of-character Liberal Party assertion that the first pillar of Canada’s foreign policy is defence and security.

She then boldly stated that  “Canada does not retreat from duty.”

Elbows up!

This sudden surge of spirited Canadian nationalistic Trump-induced bombast coming from Liberals and those on the left is such a welcome change to us “old-fashioned types” who always loved this country, supported its military, and never left its side. Hopefully the Liberals’ and the left’s “Road to Damascus” conversion to Canadian nationalism will forever consign to the dustbin all the Justin Trudeau-inspired peacekeeping-nation, post-nationalist, decolonizing, Canada-hating, feminist foreign and defence policy bunkum we have had to endure for years.

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One can only hope.

And if there was one token deed that would give Canada its first true War of 1812 moment in over two centuries, then joining Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, France, United Kingdom,........

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