University of Toronto political scientist Aisha Ahmad said Canada needs to drastically boost its homeland defence capabilities, regardless of the potential U.S. threat to the border.

“The better Canada can embrace this approach to homeland defence, the less likely all of these horrible scenarios that nobody wants will ever come to pass,” she said.

This is just advocating grift for the military industrial complex. Canada would have to develop a domestic industrial capacity like Russia’s to have any hope of a deterrent, if that even.

I should have studied political science… it’s the best Graeberian bullshit job, where you’re paid to pull nonsense out of your mind palace.