The question should be easy enough for Canada’s federal government to answer: Has Canada provided military intelligence since September 2025 to US forces delivering 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 Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand, asking this same question. The silence from Parliament Hill has been resounding.

Anand’s only comment related to the killings and Canada’s possible complicity came at the end of the recent meeting of G7 foreign ministers. As reported Nov. 12 by The Hill Times, Anand said, “I would say it is within the purview of US authorities to make that determination.” This was a blow to Canada’s international human rights reputation, especially after the United Kingdom had publicly declared that these killings were extrajudicial and it would stop sharing intelligence with US forces immediately.

Canada has been attempting ‘smoke and mirrors’ with its Department of National Defence arguing that Canadian intel only goes to the US Coast Guard (USCG). However the USCG is under the direct command of the US Department of War so any intel the USCG gathers is being shared more widely. But now, in the latest escalation Dec. 10, 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 US actions in the Caribbean.

While attention in the United States has focused on Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth in one of the attacks, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and other U.N. experts have warned that the air strikes violate international human rights law and must stop. The presidents of Mexico, Brazil and Colombia have spoken in opposition to the killings and called for their cessation. France’s foreign minister said the US strikes violated international law. Leaders of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) reaffirmed the principle of maintaining the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace.

Strikes on the small boats are part of a large military build-up by the United States in the Caribbean and come during a long campaign of threats and........

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