Canada needs The Bomb

Canada is a peace-loving nation. We welcome people from all over the world, of all different faiths.

We also, throughout our history, have punched well above our weight on the world stage militarily. In the first world war, Canada had a military of a million people, out of a total population of 11 million. Canada has fought in both world wars, the Korean war, numerous peacekeeping operations, the 1991 Iraq war, Afghanistan, we have planes fighting ISIS today.

We have been a staunch ally of Britain and the United States (when we weren't burning down the White House, like in 1812). Since World War Two, the USSR was defeated without a nuclear exchange by the efforts of the United States with its allies Canada, Great Britain, Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Poland, and Israel.

But that alliance is breaking down. For six years, the Obama administration has confused friends for enemies and enemies for friends. Obama is basically giving Iran the bomb. He sat back and watched, time and again: as his own ambassador was slaughtered in Libya, as Russia invaded Crimea. Even as US special forces had finally tracked down Osama bin Laden, he dithered for months before giving the go-ahead, and then sat back and watched.

Canada's two closest neighbors are America and, across the oil fields of the Arctic ocean, Russia. Would Obama sit back and watch if Russia took a few Canadian islands? Putin is doing the calculations.

Canada is capable of producing nuclear weapons right now. We're a Uranium-exporting nation. We also export nuclear reactors, which means we already have most of the equipment necessary to make nuclear weapons. We also have long range heavy lift aircraft and can launch rockets of our own. We could have a test weapon built in a matter of months. And we could have a deterrent arsenal within a year. And then Canada wouldn't have to depend on a fickle US president.