Mark Carney admits that he has prepared for a scenario previously considered unimaginable: an American invasion of Canada

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney acknowledged last week that he had prepared for the possibility of a US invasion of Canada, BBC reports. The statement evokes a scenario that the Canadian leader had, until recently, considered “unthinkable.”

The news is that the head of the government in Ottawa publicly admitted that the authorities had taken such a risk into consideration and prepared for it. The information was presented by the BBC, but details regarding the nature of the preparations, the exact timing of the statement, and the measures considered by the Canadian government were not specified in the available report.

Mark Carney’s statement indicates that, in Canada’s official assessments, the possibility of aggression by the United States is no longer treated exclusively as a theoretical scenario. The prime minister’s statement marks an important shift in perspective, given the traditionally close relationship between the two countries and their geographical proximity.

In the cited report, the BBC provides no further details about the circumstances in which the statement was made or about the official reactions from Washington and Ottawa.