Our economy, our culture and our location is closer to the U.S. than any other country on earth. If and when the U.S. collapses we won't be all that far behind. At some point we will probably have to endure martial law. We won't see it to the extent the Americans may. That's only because our military was so raped and ruined by the Liberals that it still hasn't been able to fully recover. The Canadian Forces simply doesn't have the resources to effectively enforce martial law across the whole nation. As for the FEMA camps in Alberta, "Don't eat that Elmer, that's horses**t". Having spent a lot of time on the bases where the so called FEMA camps are located, I'm very familiar with those bases. I have never seen anything that could, by any stretch of the imagination, be identified as a FEMA camp. They simply aren't there.

See, I'm of the opinion that we would see martial law before the Americans would. We not only have precedence for it (that thing in the '60's, or early '70s - I can't remember my history right this second), but we are also somewhat accustomed to having the military come and do stuff. Toronto for snow clearing, and another incident I can't quite stick my finger on off hand.
I don't think we'd see them round up everyone in camps - but I do see them on intersections, and around major installations...and perhaps in helping local law enforcement in picking up the 'trouble makers' early on. We have precedence for that too.

Runs With Scissors

Runswithscissors, in the 1970, it was officially The War Measures Act during the October Crisis that was instituted as a result of the kidnapping of 2 (murdering 1) Quebec government officials http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Crisis .
During the Ice Storm of 1998, the military was called in to help and in some situations to 'police' - quote "One night him and our neighbour even got stopped by the police who were asking about “their business in town so late at night” (looters? thieves?) until they explained what they were doing and showed the list from the town……" http://grammomsblog.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/the-98-ice-storm/
So if the SHTF because of any environmental or man made catastrophe, you can bet that Martial Law will be instituted. And what happens in the U.S. will happen in Canada (9/11).

That's what it was, thank you. I just needed a little shake to wake up the history lessons 🙂

Runs With Scissors

Army was also called in to Manitoba during the "Flood of the Century" in 96 or 97? was it...

I remember well as all the local girls were swooning over the uniformed boys with the big armoured toys 👿

I keep watching how the current government operates and I could believe that we would be just as susceptible to martial law as the americans. I have lost faith in the democratic process only recently and that is in thanks to this current government and how they have operated over the last few years. I never trusted "the Creten" but I still believed that the system would outlive their manipulations; I'm no longer certain 😥

I remember well as all the local girls were swooning over the uniformed boys with the big armoured toys 👿

I was one of those uniformed boys and we sure liked those swooning girls. We were sent to Winnipeg to help out, in fact, we didn't even bring our guns and the army goes nowhere without guns. We were there to toss sandbags (and maybe chase the odd girl). Just because the army is there doesn't mean that they're ready to impose martial law. I've been involved in several of those types of callouts (including the Quebec icestorm and B.C. forest fires). Whenever we were deployed for disaster assistance, that's just what it was, assistance. I don't know of any soldier at any rank, who thought of it as anything else. If the PTBs deploy troops for the imposition of martial law, they won't be shy about letting us know.
One of the things you come to realize during a career in the Canadian Forces is that Canadian troops aren't shy about letting the chain of command know when they think an action or command isn't morally right. The largest mutiny in military history was staged by Canadian troops and todays troops are a lot better educated than they were back then. It may just be my own personal bias, but I think that we're in pretty good hands when it comes to our military.

I was one of those uniformed boys ...... It may just be my own personal bias, but I think that we're in pretty good hands when it comes to our military.

I think so too, and I'd like to take this opportunity to say thank you for your service.

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I was also a military type, in BC 1976 when the Chilliwack River flooded out. We helped out, saving a few farms from being washed away, moved a full flat bed of hay from a barm in the process of being washed away. The war measures act came out after the FLQ killed a polititian and then bombed a military communications center killing three people (not publisized), one, a young female CPL. she was pregnant. Would you not take actions after that?

Things haven't changed much in Manitoba. I remember living there in the 60's and my dad, who was in the military was often called to sandbag the Assinaboine.

As far as the USA and Canada - it terrifies me. Our current government seems to be breaking its back to make sure that we get to the same place the US is, but faster and with more collateral damage. But then again, the Who said it best: Meet the new boss Same as the old boss.

Yes, my issue is with the current administration's twisting of the democratic process and throttling of any ideas not of The Harper. I don't view our military as a threat on my "fear list" but I do question if they would simply 'rebel' against their orders if they were deployed for some reason and were instructed to manage movement of civilians. The fear brought up was of martial law; not whether or not we respected the men and women in uniform.

All things considered would not have any worries about the Canadian Military. Period.