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greenpeace_canada on Instagram: "Doug Ford thinks it’s great ICE ordered armoured vehicles from Ontario 🫠 Are we ready to close the loopholes yet in the Canada-US …"
Doug Ford thinks it’s great ICE ordered armoured vehicles from Ontario 🫠 Are we ready to close the loopholes yet in the Canada-US arms trade deal?? The company - Roshel - also happens to be owned by Roman Shimonov, a former IDF soldier who immigrated to Canada. One of his companies still provides services to the IDF - and in interviews, he has noted a close collaboration with Israel’s major defence manufacturer IAI in developing the vehicles (for access to “unique” and “cutting edge” technologies).What is unfolding in the US is horrific. ICE is terrorizing human beings and ripping families apart.AND, democracy has not crumbled overnight. The process has a history as long as social structures defined by domination and control. Many who were shielded from the effects of the violent exploitation the super rich have imposed on people and land “over there” for the sake of profit are opening their eyes.For decades, violence has been carried out “over there” against colonized, occupied, racialized and marginalized people. Militarized policing, indefinite detention, psychological warfare, starvation, disappearances, surveillance, no due process, etc.Whether “over there” represents a skin colour that isn’t yours or a “faraway land” overseas - these systems were tested on people deemed disposable.Now they’re here.And suddenly it feels unthinkable.Canada is not a neutral bystander in this moment. From armoured vehicles supplied to ICE, to cooperation agreements with ICE quietly renewed, to making deals with Palantir, to enabling repression while offering reassurance on global stages — the contradiction is there. Comforting words about stability and order cannot coexist with material support for state violence.Marginalized communities have warned: the cracks in democracy are lived in first by those with the least protection. What looks like “authoritarian drift” to some is just “authoritarian spread” to those who have always experienced state sanctioned violence.Now is a moment to connect dots, weave threads and find our way back to each other in a shared reality from which we can take action.Not to go back to normal. Because normal never was.
