The question arises for the Canadian federal government to answer: has Canada provided military intelligence during the past 3 months, since September 2025, to U.S. forces that delivered lethal air strikes on small boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific that have killed dozens of civilians?
In recent weeks, Canadian organizations and individuals have written to their MPs and to ministers, including the Foreign Affairs Minister, Anita Anand, with the same question being directed. Parliament Hill’s silence has been deafening.
At the end of the recent G7 foreign ministers’ meeting, Anand made a single comment about the killings and Canada’s potential complicity. Citing the Hill Times, which reported on 12 November 2025, Anand was cited as saying that in her opinion, it is within the purview of the U.S. authorities to make that determination. Anand further stated that this action was detrimental to Canada’s reputation in the international human rights arena. This was particularly significant after the United Kingdom publicly declared that these killings were extrajudicial; additionally, the UK announced it would immediately stop sharing intelligence with U.S. forces.
Canada has been engaging in a deceptive strategy with its Department of National Defence, asserting that its intelligence only reaches the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG). However, the U.S. Department of War directly commands the USCG, allowing them to share any intelligence they gather more widely. However, with the latest escalation of 10 December 2025, it was the USCG itself that led the seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. This oil tanker seizure has been denounced internationally and leaves Canada with nowhere to hide in arguing that Canadian intel is not being used for illegal U.S. actions in the Caribbean.
Attention in the U.S. has focused on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in one of the attacks. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (HR) and other U.N. experts have warned that the air strikes violate international human rights law and must halt.
