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It isnt the guns. Canada has basically all the same guns and the Canadian PM doesnt travel with an army. It is about information. The US president's every mo
by sandworm101 5y ago
It isnt the guns. Canada has basically all the same guns and the Canadian PM doesnt travel with an army. It is about information. The US president's every movement is announced publicly days or weeks in advance. His advance team openly secures routes ahead of his convoy. They are effectively daring someone to try something. Cananda does it differently. Thier PM's exact moves are not announced to the world the week before. And when he goes somewhere he doesnt bring an army, rather he uses mostly local police who know the terrain. Thats the benifit of having a national police force (RCMP). The american secret service isnt integrated with the hundreds of different police agencies in the US. They dont trust them. So they bring thier own army every time, to face down all the potential troublemakers who know exactly where the president is going to be standing almost to the minute.
- jacquesm 5y ago> all the potential troublemakers Some of which may be part of those local police forces.
- toast0 5y agoEven dead presidents get a substantial motorcade. They drove Reagan past where I was working a noon to midnight shift (on Wilshire Blvd), and all sorts of motorcycle police came and shut down cross traffic at the intersections so he didn't need to wait in traffic.
- sandworm101 5y agoLiving presidents are controversial, human, figures. Dead presidents are saints, almost martyrs to the cause of democracy irrespective of how they actually die. America builds temples to them (aka presidential libraries) to which some followers make pilgrimages. It is downright strange.
- DoneWithAllThat 5y agoIt’s not so he “didn’t need to wait in traffic”. It’s so someone can’t pull dump trucks in front of and behind his motorcade and create a kill box.
- bombcar 5y agoYou can get basically the same thing when you die - just call the local PD. Stopping traffic for funerals is very common.
- yardstick 5y agoI’d argue that no one cares about the Canadian, Australian, etc leaders. When’s the last time one of them was assassinated? They don’t have a nuclear briefcase with them, they aren’t the ones leading military engagements across the world, they aren’t the ones with a super important economy.
- sandworm101 5y ago1868. Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of canada's founding fathers. Three years after Lincoln. More recently, in 1995 an attempt was made against Jean Chrétien. Even more recently, in march of last year a deranged former soldier drove a pickup truck into the prime minister's residence. Canada has its own fare share of crazy people looking to attack politicians. https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/military-reservist-who-rammed-rideau-hall-gate-with-truck-sentenced-to-six-years-1.5340945 https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/military-reservist-who-rammed-... >>OTTAWA -- A Manitoba man who rammed a gate at Rideau Hall before arming himself and heading on foot toward Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's home last July was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison.