NBC News reported that the US State Department has “No secret plan to invade Canada”. But they’d say that even if they did have such a plan (and let’s be honest, they must have thought about it, especially during the Trudeau years):
The U.S. and Mexico are not secretly planning to invade Canada, a State Department spokeswoman confirmed to laughter during a daily press briefing.
Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland was taking questions from journalists about its activities Tuesday, which included a meeting between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Mexico Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa.
She was asked about “a signing ceremony” with Espinosa — what was being signed and why was the ceremony not open to the press.
“I think it’s an update on Merida, but I will get that for you,” Nuland reported, referring to the Merida Initiative to fight organized crime.
The journalist asked, “This isn’t some secret thing … to invade Canada or something like that?”
Amid laughter, Nuland replied: “No, no, no. It’s not anything classified.”
It’s also one of the things that military staff do: prepare plans for all kinds of potential conflicts. Canada had a plan to invade the United States, for example.
Update, 22 September: For your further reading pleasure, why not go through the actual 1935 invasion plan document?
