US military invasion of Canada would spark decades-long insurgency

Original Publish Date » March 30 , 2025
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Michael MacDonald / The Canadian Press » “When you look at the power (imbalance) between the U.S. and Canada, an invasion would immediately result in the defeat of the Canadian Armed Forces,” said Aisha Ahmad, the University of Toronto political science professor, who last month published an essay on the subject.

“But a conventional military victory is not the end of this story. It’s just the beginning.”

“It’s impossible to annex Canada without violence,” said Ahmad, who has advised generals at the Pentagon about counter-insurgency strategies. “No one is born an insurgent or resistance fighter. This is something that happens to people when their mom is killed, or when their kids are unable to get to a hospital. People fight back because they have to.”

“The research on guerrilla wars clearly shows that weaker parties can use unconventional methods to cripple a more powerful enemy over many years,” Ahmad wrote in The Conversation.

“This approach treats waging war as a secret, part-time job that an ordinary person can do …. Trump is delusional if he believes that 40 million Canadians will passively accept conquest.”