Scarcity, pollution, and deregulation are putting the country’s supply under siege
Originally published in The Walrus
Imagine the American federal government goes rogue amid an unprecedented drought, disregards all laws and agreements on paper—and sticks a very large drinking straw into Lake Ontario from its southern shore in New York State.
How would it all play out?
If the threat is backed by military force, Canada will likely find our water laws suddenly moot—relics from a time before Trump 2.0 sidestepped a global rules-based order and pursued self-interest with impunity. Guerilla-styled sabotage of water pipelines by the Canadian military or regular citizens would become the only option for stopping the illicit flow.
