Retired Lt. Col. David Redman says Canada’s national security apparatus has undergone 11 years of deliberate, systematic destruction as official policy under Justin Trudeau.

By Probe International

Retired Lt. Col. David Redman, former head of Alberta’s emergency management, has delivered a blistering indictment: the Canadian federal government systematically dismantled the nation’s security agencies as a deliberate policy aimed at weakening Canadian unity and transforming the country into a “post-national state.”

Speaking on the Hannaford show, Redman accused Ottawa of intentionally dismantling the 10 core elements of national security: intelligence, geopolitical analysis, border control, immigration policy, policing, and more. He points to the shocking flip from labeling China a top strategic threat to embracing it as a significant strategic partner as irrefutable proof of purposeful betrayal. [See: Ex-Alberta emergency chief says Ottawa destroying national security agencies – as a matter of policy by Nigel Hannaford].

In Redman’s unsparing view, Canada’s ruling class under former prime minister, Justin Trudeau, spent over a decade actively weakening the nation from within while botching emergencies through panic and hubris. Every step, he says, was “thought through” to erode Canadian sovereignty, fracture national unity, and accelerate Trudeau’s vision of Canada as a borderless, cultureless entity with no unifying identity.

By flooding the country with immigrants who do not share Canada’s values and interests, Redman charges, the government has engineered the breakup of Canadian cohesion in service of globalist priorities over the national interest. He draws a direct line from Justin Trudeau to Pierre Trudeau’s legacy, accusing the son of continuing the father’s project of subordinating Canada to international forces at the expense of its own people.

Redman slams this as sabotage of Canada’s culture, values, and independence—especially reckless given Canada’s vital proximity to the United States, which should be leveraged for strength, not undermined.

On COVID, Redman criticizes Alberta’s response for ignoring established pandemic plans, which Redman helped to write. Based on WHO guidance at the time, Alberta’s 2005/2014 pandemic plan explicitly rejected lockdowns, school and business closures, and shelter-in-place as counterproductive and harmful, advocating instead for a balanced, whole-of-government approach focused on evidence over alarm.

Instead, panicked politicians ignored their own plan, surrendered to public health bureaucrats, and imposed the exact opposite policies: draconian restrictions fueled by fear, not science. The avoidable result, he argues, mirrored failures everywhere except Sweden and Florida, which largely rejected lockdowns and fared better.

Redman highlights the human wreckage: surging suicides, mental health collapse, and lost years of education that shorten children’s lifespans and cripple their economic futures. He personally begged every premier, including Alberta’s, to follow their existing plans—only to be stonewalled. His 2021 report “Canada’s Deadly Response to COVID-19” demands accountability for what he calls gross negligence bordering on criminal.

He warns that without real accountability, worse disasters lie ahead—especially with Canada ceding more power to unaccountable bodies like the WHO.