When asked about why the public was never informed about the balloon until after it had entered U.S. airspace, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino cited the sensitivity of the timing of the information.
"We do, and we work closely with our allies on that front as well. And we'll continue to do so that we can protect our perimeter, our sovereignty and our national security." Sources also told CTV News U.S. intelligence knows of a total of at least four of these balloons from China sent to other countries, beyond the one currently over the U.S.
Sure they did so why didn't they warn the US took a civilian to spot it.
Glad to see ChinCan working together and creating a communism society
First they had to care about the west being spied on. Second billc11 makes us closer to communist ideology anyway, right Pravda? ABDanielleSmith FraserInstitute WSOnlineNews TrueNorthCentre
And didn't do a thing. Trudeau is not fit to lead. Resign now.
That’s nice, they just watched…
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Now in all honesty If this was a real threat, how would the army defend this country when we're sending the workable tanks to Ukraine to fight s conflict that's not even ours to deal with. Remember Trudeau just bought jets at triple the price because NATO forced them too.
Lol sure they did. That's why the public was informed and action was taken to deal with... Oh the Americans publicly announced it and had to deal with it? Good stuff.
Why didn't the Canadian military shoot it down?! What a joke!!!
.... And they watched it sail on by.....
joe_warmington Probably took off from Canada
joe_warmington They basically let them spy for an entire week
Since trudumb has a connection to the Chinese and has such respect for the red bastards but at what point do we charge him with treason for not taking action and protecting Canada against this? He could have initiated the shoot down but never looked to our protection.
Have to call BS on that. We probably didn't know this thing was over our air space until the US told us it was.
Trudeau gonna spend 50 millions to build a pad to receive it
China, like Canada and America, have actual spy satellites hovering another 190km above that weak ass balloon that can snap pictures of the hair on your legs. Anyone throwing a fit about this is just doing so because they want something to complain about.
Why weren’t Canadians told
I wonder if it took my photo for the cover of a chinese magazine? Smile! Candid camera. All the while the photos are being sent home to China. Hope they are bored with the wilderness photos. Snow. Trees. Snow. Trees. More snow.
And why didn’t we short it down..oh wait we sent all our good military stuff to another country.. right!
😶
joe_warmington *Assisted
If it collects data, it can be hacked. They might have been trying to get as much data from it as possible.
False.... We did not.... We only tracked another one, after US discovered first one, that went way past their borders, in the first place. Second one is still flying around btw...
🤬🤬🤬
Yeah and they shit their pants till big brother US, took control and shot it down.
Give a rest with you propaganda. NORAD response was the same as on 9/11😂😂😂🤡🌎let’s wait for them to complete their surveillance then shoot it down over the ocean 😂😂😂
So Canada supports USA military intentionally shooting down a civilian Chinese weather balloon. By same logic, Canada must support Iran shooting down (accidentally) a civilian airplane.
joe_warmington Anita Anand will have an answer no doubt. She will inform us that the usa government told her to leave it alone and they will look after it LMAO
joe_warmington Yeah sure
joe_warmington So awesome we live in a country where our government liberal_party considers it’s people as a threat to the state and not the CCP who is an actual threat to our country. cdnpoli Balloon spyballoon
joe_warmington And what did Trudeau do about it? Absolutely nothing.
And let it go into the USA
we were just getting set to say how 'strongly concerned' we were about the whole thing
Then why the fuck didnt our Canadian Government do anything ?
We should have shot it down the second it entered Canadian airspace. If it actually was a weather balloon, China should have said so from the start.
And did fuck all
I call bull💩,
Tracking?!? They where just tracking it?!?
The fk they had a clue! Or worse yet we got caught letting sketchy Chinese surveillance into or airspace
Never heard about it until some random Joe posted something on Twitter about it
Wonder what the balloon carried over from China and sprayed over our country🤔
This proves that the F-35 is useless.
Why didn't Trudeau shoot it down? Just like Biden, Trudeau is afraid of his Chinese masters. The media don't dare question their master, junior Trudeau about anything important now do they? Do you CTV
No our govt only tracks it's own citizens
Looking at the comments it's wild how ppl will put their politics into any random story or even just the headline
I feel sorry for the entire Canadian defence establishment…folks who taken the oath to protect our country from all enemies, to be working under Trudeau…
I'm gonna call BS on this one
JLCWood2017 Sure we did. Was Mendicino driving around with binoculars?
Chinese spy balloon over Canadian territory
And you know what JustinTrudeau did about it?
Shame on our military 😢not bringing it down
And we are only hearing about this now, guess we didn’t have the balls to shoot it down eh. Wait wait, I did hear about it, but on the American news. We look like fools again. Sure come on in, sure spy away. We love you 😘
😮 what you guys planning to do about that?
Trudeau thought it was Amazon trying out a new delivery method.
Unreported and still flying great job Canada defense
And did fuck all about it. We thought the chins were scoping out new dollar store locations
If Canada can't handle a balloon 🎈 just imagine if it was a missile?
I doubt Canadian authorities even knew about it.
We would have shot it down but we fired our army and sent our weapons away oops .
Good thing they waited until today, to agree with the US to bring it down. JT is a biggest 💩stain.
Am I correct that the Canadian government did not identify this balloon over Canada until US media broad cast it?
And our PM admired it
It’s a freaking balloon
Bravo.
Canada couldn’t track a wet fart with a blood hound.
That why we need F22
Nop! I don’t believe this 👎
And yesterday was the first citizens heard of this.. Scary
Stop treating the citizens of Canada like children. That’s a very low percentage. We should have been made aware, for a number of reasons. I hope government learns lessons from this.
Liars. It took a call from The US before we had any idea it was there. But keep carrying that water, people totally believe what you say.....
Why was this not taken down in the northern prairie provinces? Wtf is wrong with trudeau?! TrudeauMustGo
Skip the Chopsticks? Does it deliver egg rolls and dim sun?
And did nothing about it
And they didn't notify anyone?
Typical Canadian response to a potential military, espionage or other threat. Crickets. This government, or maybe any government does not know how to deal with stuff like this anymore. Everyone is too worried about offending some other person or government.
And did fuck all. Wonder why.
They should have shot it down with their slingshots
Assuming they did, why did they keep it secret?
Sure they did 😂
That's not a weather balloon...it's a space station!!!
So why didn’t Canada shoot it down?
Why was it allowed to violate our sovereignty? Why did they not tell us about it? Why has the government not made official condemnation of China over this? What national security risks has this caused? Some questions for the media to ask? Did the feds notify the provinces?
How,did Canada send up its own high tech balloon reconessance team.
JustinTrudeau thought his Chinese friends were sending him a present.
Well I'm a 'source', and we've become incapable of defending our own territory under Trudeau Liberals. They are all too happy to chuck billions in aid and armaments to Zelensky, but sends our own ill equipped military to change old people's diapers and do flood mop up.
sssurrreee they did...Our useless government didn't know about it until it was in American news.
And thank you CTV for being you. Telling us only what Trudeau wants us to know. Thank you to the media in the states. Ours are absolutely useless.
And we did absolutely nothing 😂
LOL, sure they did
That’s some good reporting there Lou. Don’t trust the MSM. We should have known about this and something done.
Canadians are censored. How is that working out for us?
This balloon can carry an EMP device. A couple of EMP balloons could wipe out the electricity grid in North America for months at a minimum. Most replacement parts (ex. transformers etc.) come from China. North American leadership is incredibly weak right now.
Here is how this would have been dealt with in the 1980’s. Canada and the U.S.A. would be working together to make sure this spy balloon would have never made it into North American air space. At worst shot down over Alaska/Northern Canada. Peace through strength.
Lmfao why are we only hearing about it after the states reported it first🤣🤣🤣
Only comes out when it makes the US news.
AND the pathetic loosers who are in charge of the government did absolutely fkn nothing about it....and kept their mouth shut until we heard about it on US media. Sell out commies!
USA has shot in down
We thought it was a pizza
Suddenly they knew it was there and did nothing. The lies never end
NATO can not handle a balloon made of Saran Wrap but it escalating conflict with a country that has 6000 Nuclear warheads targeted at it.
We should shoot it down, but we gave our bullets to escalate the Ukraine War
Ohhhh, u tracked it? Ohhhh, I bet they r so scared. Why didn't u now them up...oh right, cuz u gave all our weapons to corrupt scandalous Ukraine...thats y u don't care, cuz libs and scandal go hand in hand
Try flying an uninvited balloon or anythingelse into the airspace of China, Russia, North Korea, Iran etc. and there be no tracking happening. If anything left it will be found where it entered their airspace.
Since last weekend? WTF
TrudeauBlackFaceBalloon WEFpuppet ChineseSpyBalloon
TrudeauMustResign
Good job not saying anything to the US about it. Way to keep security in North America. Doesn’t surprise me. Trudeau respects chinas dictatorship, he knew about chinas interference with our election and did nothing, he wanted Chinese troops to train with and in Canada. Traitor!
So that is why the slingshot budget went up in the CAF.
Probably BS They likely didn't even know it was there.
It was probably launched within Canada...
Chinese spy balloon hovering over Canada airspace breaking laws & disrespecting sovereignty means:: Under Trudeau govt - only terrorist and refugees loving govt. it is weak for any defense actions within their own territory. And not to forget-cost millions $ of taxpayers
Why didn't we shoot it down? Eh?
lunar balloon
Blowing it up was out of the question? It could be releasing God knows what into the air. But, let's be typically stupid Canadians.
And why exactly didn't this balloon get blown up immediately?
Irresponsible imbiciles in OTTAWA and YOU ..WHY did you not tell anyone ?
So they should of shot it down when it was over the artic......you know an area with very little humans that can get hurt by debris
We sure it wasn't a chinese spyplane that originated in canada?
Nothing to see here…sweep on by…
That is NOTHING TO COMPARED TO THE NORTH AMERICAN PROBLEM(CDA & USA) OF THE CHINESE GOVT FUNDING AT UNIVERSITIES! & COLLEGES! HEY! LETS GIVE THEM ALL OF OUR GREAT IDEAS!
But Trudeau will tell ya I knew nothing about it lmao
Trudeau’s commi buddy at work
Let’s hope it doesn’t contain a virus that kills us
And why wasn’t it shot down?
WTF? Our government is a complete, abject failure. Has the Liberal Party become nothing more than a vassal of the Chinese Communist Party?
Lol ya sure they did. Why are we hearing about it a WEEK later?
Of all the news articles I don't care about, this one might be on top
Shoot it down.
China: 1 USA/Canada: 0
Sure they did 🤣🤣
Does it have white rabbit candies in it?
I dont understand the purpose of having a military if their not going to do anything. Why not blow it out of the sky immediately?
How about you start tracking all the people who were killed and injured by these shots.
Balancing int'l relations & national security regarding the recent Chinese weather balloon. A thorough investigation into its purpose & potential dangers is necessary while considering the impact on the relationship with China. ChineseWeatherBalloon NationalSecurity
Good thing we knew about it then.
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oh so they have been spying on us here in Canada too? 🇨🇦And nobody said anything.. hmmm 🤔
I’d like to personally thank JustinTrudeau for doing nothing about it and not protecting Canadian sovereignty. But let’s give billions to ukraine to protect theirs!!
Canada is a joke.
NORAD
They worked with NORAD
I’m going to call BULLSH/T. The Canadian government couldn’t track mud on their boots
What shady shit are they trying to hide while getting everyone's attention with a balloon lmao.
and our air defence......
Is anyone shocked?
The balloons are coming 🎈🎈🎈🎈
Lol… JustinTrudeau is the only Chinese spy in Canada filled with hot air.
FFS 🇨🇦 we let this just float through our airspace and into our allies airspace. And we hear about this from the USA media. God help us please CanadaIsBroken
Well the nice thing is it proved a theory I had about the wind patterns and how the emissions from China can skew our climate readings here in NA.
Trudeau did nothing like the coward he is
It’s his Chinese idol watching over him 🤣
They tracked it to make sure it received safe passage over the country because our govt is owned by the CCP...
First chinese police stations popping up and now this...people better stop waking up..Chinada will soon be where your from
But Canada had no problem with it coming in because it gad its Vax papers.
I don't believe this, our military heard about it from the American new networks
If this was actually a Chinese spy balloon it would have been dealt with long ago. Enough with this charade
Laughable and they did nothing until it entered US air space
Shoot it down
If CTV says Canada tracked the balloon the whole time, I believe they never even knew it was there.
lol people making too much out of this. I can see all the chinese politicians laughing :). The fact the americans think that this balloon was released just to surveille them is ridiculous. Also its not very stealthy so not a whole lot of 'spying' happening here. 😂
sure, is there a good reason we should believe your BS?
But our corrupt media and government kept us in the dark.
Canada didn't even notice it and US tried but can't shoot it down. So crazy funny. China conquered to Anglo saxon genocidal nations with,,,balloons 😂😂
ballon should’ve been shot down as it entered Canadian air space just before coast above the ocean ! Chinese looks like were testing to find vulnerability in our defence system which is why ballon entered U.S. from Canada! If it entered by U.S. coast , it would’ve been shot down!
It’s not about the spying…I mean that’s not good but it’s about testing us to see what we will do….which was nothing. ✅ Canada and US don’t respond, China and the world now know how to deliver a payload without us doing anything….Giant failure JustinTrudeau
JT probably helped them launch it.
Big deal us spend millions on ballon’s
I guess it was racist to stop Chinese spy balloons at the border. Canada is defenceless under this government.
'After the war, many heroes showed up'.
Why are we allowing this
How you know ctv
China is provoking a war
Glad we have a US government and media to inform us of these things in a timely manner.
You mean Norad did.
JustinTrudeau probably thought he got a birthday present from China ChinaSpyBalloon
Sure *canada* did Prove they didn't just let it fly above and two a hot air balloon lol u got to be kidding me What about all the advanced technology
lilwundrgrl As of now, we can see that for the very low price of an unmanned ballon and some electronic instruments, China was able to effectively gauge the defensive resolve of both Canada and the US. Trudeau and Biden are the laughingstock of the world right now.
proving once again our governments partner in damage control. The cheque is forthcoming.
thanks for letting us know i guess…
And did nothing? 🤨
Justin Trudeau loves China, he must be happy they sent him a balloon!
This is caused by inflation.
Update?
So why didn’t we know about it and why did they not take care of it? Oh, because we have nothing to fight it with? Step up Canada!!
It hold an airborne virus. Shoot it down and you release the next omicron virus.
This photo explains why Trudeau said nothing about it.
Probably figuring out how to invade or release next bio weapon. Or property shopping! Good thing canada is tracking it! Blow it out of sky! Capture it! Sanctions! What a failed leadership
And did nothing about it! You forgot to mention that!
You can't do a damn thing about it. Shut up Ottawa.
JustinTrudeau knew and just let China spy on us. Isn't that Treason? RCMP csiscanada CSIS TrudeauForTreason
So they knew this, didn't say anything, and let it fly into the US? So NORAD really is only good for tracking Santa
But doesn’t warn the Americans Smells like more bullshit from the Libs propaganda channel
Uh huh. Sure.
And did nothing!
The Chinese “spy” balloon was tracked in Canada airspace last weekend from 1/26/23 before flying over Montana.
Has Trudeau apologized to the balloon yet?
The Americans should have taken it out when it was over Alaska.
Canada is embarrassing. This is what happens when the woke pansies of GTA and Montreal get to vote for all of canada. Bunch of losers.
We are the most incompetent and irrelevant armed forces in the world! Thank the Liberals for this embarrassment!
Sure it did.
Did the balloon see it's shadow ? If not we got 6 more weeks of spying.
If that's the case, then why did they wait until it was over nuke sites to make a fuss about it? Either you're all lying, or you're trying to get us into a war with China
Where would we be right now if there wasn't media outside Canada?
oooooh , 'tracked'!
🇨🇳 And nothing about it from dictator JustinTrudeau, or his State Sponsored Media. 🇨🇳
Canada didn’t question the virus either. We are asleep at the wheel
Do you mean NORAD, not sure since Trudeau grabbed control that Canada has any defensive capabilities?
Trudeau let's a Chinese spy balloon into Canada air space, does nothing... But arrests his own people for gathering together lol
“There’s a level of admiration I actually have for China because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime' - Justin Turdeau (2013)
Just an FYI to those who are criticizing the response in Canada or lack of.. the USA who has the most advanced military is not doing anything.
Looks like a weather balloon.
Canada wants more balloon !!
Trudeau is a chinese puppet.
It's not the first one ,is it?
You still trust these people after the virus
so we should have shot it down...PierrePoilievre MelissaLantsman
And didn’t tell the public. And let it go through our airspace to get to the states. Trudeau is owned by China… f’n ping’s puppet. We are so doomed with Justin Castro screwing us over every way he can
Neither Canada nor the US can figure out how to make a small hole in a balloon - to let it drift down?
SHOOT. IT. DOWN.
CTV News kinda forgot that detail in their first posting of this story! What's it like being incompetent reporters?
Why weren’t we aware of it and why didn’t they do anything about it?
And said nothing to its citizens
And yet we were not told about it. Thanks to news sources in the US, this is now old news. Now find out what it is and why they were permitted to use Canada as a throughway
Yeah sure
LMFAO.... First off... what makes it a Chinese Balloon? Secondly.... Why would China use a WW2 spy Balloon? I'm going to call this a false flag... or a prank.
Did Justin order our 'air force' to stand by with their rape whistles and gymnastic ribbons?
Of course Canada couldn't do anything about it anyway, we have no weapon system that can take something out at 66,000 ft but lets not admit that...
Who F cares
Trudeau wouldn't get rid of if. He's too scared
You forgot……Canada did nothing.
It should not have been in Canadian air space
The coverage about a balloon is blown up out of proportion. It's not --
Ohh it was already in Canadian airspace before ….🤔
Suuuuure they did CTV…nice try
What, no Canadian Jews with space lazer?
Thankfully Canadians still have access to US media for news about a Chinese spy balloon over Canada, world class liar Marco Mendocino thinks its to secret for Canadians to know his friends in China are spying on us...
Canada will keep a secret until it drops a bomb on us, while the U.S. informs its population of any threats, fact.
Everybody relax! Even if u don’t trust Trudeau, the military would have had to look into it. I think it would be worse if a balloon with the area of 48 football fields were to land on a populated area here.
So it knew an let it fly into American air space… JustinTrudeau you got some explaining to do
…but did nothing 🤦♂️
Its a weather balloon no?
Suuuuuuure
And did nothing what a joke!
And didn't make a big public circus of it.
Yeah ok after the Americans alerted them. This liberal_party is a constant disaster as of late.
Canada cant even defend itself, china could wipe us off the face of the earth
This whole thing smells like a Sadams weapons of mass destruction moment
'Relax it's just a weather balloon' mean while anyone flies a toy drone near an airport gets swatted and arrested.
Thing still floatin around eh 🤣
Elon.. I'm ready to go to Mars now...
Bullshit they did, they didn’t know about it till the Americans told them. NORAD folks still working that “remote lifestyle” ? Knowing these it’s highly likely.
Relax just a weather balloon. 👽
Shot that balloon down.....
...Canadian officials had known about the balloon since the weekend...only confirmed it had been tracking the balloon late Thursday night, after the U.S. had announced the spotting of the balloon. What else do they know but not tracked? If there's a weapon we are screwed.
Why didn’t we hear about it? Why didn’t the try to intercept or call China and ask what gives JustinTrudeau
I wonder why it wasn't reported.
Why would china 🇨🇳 use ballon’s when it has satellites 🤔
Shoot that thing down. China is spying for Russia
How do we know it's just a spy balloon? What if it carries a nuclear or biological weapon?
Really ? And did what in response? You say zero? We'll see how that works
Sorry…..why AGAIN was this allowed to continue? Why wasn’t this device shot down? Is this not the breaking of International Law
Great air defence notification system we have. There’s apps that can track Santa but Canada and America’s air defence can’t pick up on a ballon entering withers air space?
China is using spy balloons while they have 500 satellites?🤔 I almost believe you. Perhaps try harder?
Yeah! And waited till the US spoke about it. eh?
Well we all know how JustinTrudeau loves China. He probably let them fly it over and told the military to ignore it.
Just shoot it down….enough said.
Now do the story on Jordon Trishton Walker and Phizer
Bring their military here, allow them y to I have police stations here, allow spy balloons in the air. Trudeau wasn’t kidding when he said he admired China.
Embarrassing.
Bet you the balloon was launched by Chinese spies in Canada. There's no way that thing floated over the Pacific Ocean for weeks without anyone noticing.
Wow.
Canada wouldn't have this problem if realDonaldTrump was in power. Would of been a fireworks show.
We would have done something, but Trudeau loves balloons.
So everyone’s dying? K
Because the Canadian and American Governments are in on it. This doesn’t happen “by accident”. Come on people!
Here comes the next virus 🙄
A spy balloon for over a week over canadian and americans airspace, and just an hour ago I've heard it was blown over Montana. It's either a propaganda joke, which i prefer, or we are too weak to blow a 'balloon ' before it enters our airspace
That's a lie . Canada didn't even know it was here . Probably launched from Canada by the Chinese
Funny this becomes news right when Project Veritas coverage on Pzifer gets out of hand. Good timing.
Our government tells us nothing.
And did what to counter?
And did nothing, just like the Americans
shoot it down
Sure we did. They probably just thought it was an actual balloon.
JackPosobiec
Lol. Yeah right.
Lib goofs scared they will hurt someone’s feelings for shooting it down
If Trudeau didn't admire china's basic dictatorship we could have shot it down lol
Nothing to see here!!! Funny how we never knew until US revelled the ballon. PM totally transparent, what a joke.
if chinese would no longer exist !!! do your research you clowns. False flag. squirrel 🐿!! it’s usa surveillance at its best
Just shoot the damned thing down.
Wow, our government is so transparent. 🙄
I think this is a trial run for the Chinese. What would happen if they sent thousands of these to Canada and the USA some with nukes and some with bio weapons. Sure would save on aircraft.
And....did nothing
It was probably mistaken for Santa Claus sleigh....
Scared shirtless of China. All north America is..
So, why didn't you...
AnitaAnandMP just confirmed it was actually an Uber delivery of fortune cookies.
Good Morning Canadian State TV - Trudeau admires the Chinese Dictator Ship. So Chinese Spy balloons could be welcomed !
Thanks for the update. After the fact. Losers.
One balloon brought the whole US & Canada to their knees lol
Trudeau probably let them launch it from Canada
Sure they did... We believe you, why wouldn't we.
Canada didn't track shit because it was never reported. Now bla bla bla. If it did than from where it came from ?
If only we didn’t give all our weapons to Ukraine…
Y didn't u shoot it down? Crazy
Still don’t understand why it wasn’t shot down over the ocean
What do you expect from weak Trudeau?
This is a test to see if the public will buy their lie
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