Annexation of Alberta and Saskatchewan

[Sal Paradise]

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Several months ago, in an all too frequent fit of insanity, the Great Lake Provinces demanded the Republic of Canuckistan capture the four most notorious criminals in Alberta and Saskatchewan. To facilitate this, the Canuckistan Armed Forces extended its legal jurisdiction into the provinces and created the Extra-Judicial Zone.


From the very start of our mission, the GLP has connived and deceived in a transparent attempt to sabotage the operation and circumvent the sovereignty of our Republic. When asked who the four most notorious criminals in the region were, they insulted our intelligence with some cockamamie story about computer hackers. All they knew about these script kiddies, the GLP claimed, was that they were in the GLP. This was suspicious to begin with, but when we asked if they might be in Ontario, the GLP fabricated some nonsense about [i]every[/i] Ontario ISP booby-trapping their computer terminals with explosives. While we recognize the GLP government is capable of such an insane measure, surely not every ISP in Ontario is run by lunatics. Their lies were as transparent as they were audacious as they were insulting. If Ontario ISPs were murdering people who hacked into their computers, that would constitute a crime far worse than anything those hackers could have done. But our own, very preliminary, investigations found even worse criminals operating in the region: a communist terrorist group called the FEO.

It was clear from all of this, that the GLP was deliberately misleading our criminal investigation, and so we changed our focus to their involvement in the Blue Heaven civil war.

This the GLP also dragged their heels in co-operating with. As we made our communications with the GLP government public, anyone who has been following our investigation will remember the constant stalling tactics of the GLP and the ultimate refusal of their military to recognize our jurisdiction in investigating their involvement.

Fortunately, this obstinacy has not completely prevented us from reaching a conclusion in our investigation. We can now say with confidence that the Great Lake Provinces not only aided the Blue Heaven rebels in the Blue Heaven civil war, but actively participated in the conflict and comically tried to cover it up.

In taped interviews, rebel leaders, rebel soldiers and rebel supporters reveal that the GLP helped their cause substantially. According to these confessionals, the GLP supplied the rebels with thousands of weapons, hundreds of vehicles, thousands of engineers for the construction of defenses, and what can only be described as an invasion force of some thirty thousand soldiers.

Civilians living along the border interviewed by Blue Heaven's and Canuckistan's investigative teams report seeing heavy military traffic across the border, including squadrons of military aircraft. This is further corroborated by forensic analyses of land near the border that indicates this amount of recent traffic.

Rebel vehicles captured by the Blue Heaven government, which were far in advance of anything the rebels could have come up with or have stolen from Blue Heaven, showed clear signs that they had been painted over and underneath where GLP markings. Damage from battle reveals the underlying layer of paint, while our own forensic teams were able to carefully removed the outer layers on some parts. Former rebels have admitted to painting their insignia on GLP vehicles. Additionally, artifacts recovered from fallen rebel soldiers indicate that many of them were at least GLP citizens, if not GLP military personnel.

What is the most staggering is the shear volume of equipment the rebels had and its high technology. The Blue Heaven rebels could not have possibly produced the kinds of vehicles and weaponry found in such numbers, with such diversity, and of such advancement in the few months they had. The factories found in rebel-occupied territory showed no signs of having produced such volumes. It was obvious that they were as freshly refurbished as the vehicles found.

All evidence will be made available to any interested parties, provided Blue Heaven be first permitted redact anything that may be of interest to their national security.

This pile of evidence will likely be denied by the compulsive liars that populate GLP high office, but several conclusions are clear:

1) The Blue Heaven rebels received enormous amounts of highly advanced outside weapons and vehicles
2) This aid was sent into Blue Heaven territory from GLP territory
3) Whoever sent this aid tried to disguise its origin and make it appear as if the rebels produced it
4) Analysis of it reveals that some of it had at one time been marked with GLP identification
5) Hundreds of witnesses and rebel leaders independently admit that the GLP helped them

It is clear to Canuckistan, and it should be clear to all, that the GLP actively participated in the Blue Heaven civil war on the secessionist side. The shear scale of their involvement dwarfs the efforts of the rebels. For all intents and purposes, the GLP's involvement can only be described as an invasion of Blue Heaven with some treasonous Blue Heaven citizens recruited to cover up.

This is their second such invasion in only a few years. The first, if you will recall, was caused by some hacker insulting their president in an email. It goes without saying that even prior to this incident the Great Lake Provinces has had a long history of destabilizing the region with its belligerence and seemingly endless supply of psychotic leadership. Canuckistan does not believe itself capable of ending the threat the Great Lake Provinces pose to the peace and security of North America on its own. Nothing short of the GLP state's total dismantling can achieve this. We do, however, believe ourselves capable of ridding Western Canada of this menace.

Therefore, citing our legal position in the Extra-Judicial Zone, the parameters laid out when it was established, our existential obligation to our own security and our moral obligation to our neighbours and the people of Alberta and Saskatchewan, and citing the Great Lake Provinces' long history of belligerence, support of terrorism and their second invasion of Blue Heaven, Canuckistan declares the Great Lake Provinces unfit to govern its territories and hereby liberates Alberta and Saskatchewan from that dangerous and incompetent government. From here on, these territories are provinces of Canuckistan. There future fate will be determined with consultation with their former protectors, Louisiana and Atlantis, at a later date.


All GLP state officials and military personnel are hereby expelled from the territories. They will be arrested as enemy agents of a foreign state and deported.

All residents of Alberta and Saskatchewan will be given one year to decide between GLP and Canuckistan citizenship. Those choosing GLP citizenship will be deported.

All citizens of the GLP are henceforth forbidden to enter any Canuckistan territory.


General Babul Ganoush
Triumvir and Secretary of Internal Security and Defense

Brigadier General Gordon H. Biddiscombe
Provisional Governor of Alberta and Saskatchewan

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[b]Classified[/b]

An hour before this announcement was made, Canuckistan commanders occupying military bases in Saskatchewan were given new orders. Banking on GLP orders to resist, but not resist violently, Canuckistan soldiers forcefully disarmed all military personnel on the bases. Anyone that disobeyed GLP's apparent orders to only peacefully resist was shot.

As per the soon to be announced order, operations began well in advance to arrest all state and military officials in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Though this would take several days, military officers were given first priority, then enlisted men and finally civilian officials. Troop transports and police vans from Canuckistan and confiscated previously by the OEJA in Alberta and Saskatchewan, were sent around the provinces with Canuckistan military escorts to collect arrested officials and transfer them to prisoner camps in the south. All commercial airliners were grounded and appropriated for use in these future deportations.

Nothing changed in the alertness of the Canuckistan military in the Extra-Judicial Zone. They had been prepared for war since entering the country. To end the complacency that may have developed after weeks of war readiness but no action, a new definitive warning pronouncing that war was eminent was sent out. The spelling error was barely noticed, but English teachers generations later would amuse students with it.

Edited September 7, 2010 by Sal Paradise

[kitex]

[b]"[/b]The government and people of Blue Heaven are indebted to the nation of Canuckistan for their amazing investigation into the Blue Heaven civil war and for allowing the truth to come out, despite the lying, incompetent fools that make up the high officials of the GLP."

- Robert Hurrings (BH Prime Minister)

[Shatner]

"The NPC greatly applauds Canukistan's actions."

[Zoot Zoot]

Finland also applauds the efforts of Canuckistan in closing this case.

[JEDCJT]

"Canuckistan has J Andres's support in this."

[Sargun II]

The Sarnungian Republic fully supports Canuckistan.

[Yawoo]

Alberta and Saskatchewan will revert to Louisiana-Atlantis protectorate should Canuckistan fall, same as it was should the G.L.S. fall. That being said, the land that was seceded to the G.L.S. which reaches the Hudson Bay is hereby revoked, and the land reverts to a Louisiana-Atlantis protectorate should Canuckistan not wish to incorporate the region into their country.

[Pikachurin]

"Disparu applauds Canuckistan's efforts and notes that they have our support on this matter. The belligerence and psychosis of the government of the Great Lakes Provinces and the Great Lakes States have been destabilizing the security of the North American continent for the past two years, and we are quite appalled and disappointed that their leadership's mentality has not changed despite their petty promises and deluded lies.

In relation to this, we are hereby activating Article IV of the [url="http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?showtopic=86327&view=findpost&p=2399769"]James Bay Agreement between Disparu and the GLP[/url]. Due to the wording of Article IV, we are able to shorten the cancellation time to fourty-eight hours by citing the GLP's infringement of Article I. All GLP-registered ships, civilian or military, now have forty-eight hours to leave Disparuean waters. All GLP-registered aircraft, civilian or military, now have twenty-four hours to leave Disparuean territory and/or airspace. Any ship or aircraft violating this order will be escorted out of our jurisdiction, or in the case of military forces, will be promptly met by force. All GLP citizens now have ninety-six hours to leave Disparuean territory, airspace, and/or waters. Anyone violating this order will be forcibly deported out of Disparu."

[Sal Paradise]

OOC: HHAYD, despite your counter-announcement, I still don't have any movements of yours related to this. You still have the right to RP the people in Alberta and Saskatchewan, so I can't do anything until I know you've either accepted my movements or are resisting them.

[iamthey]

We approve of Canuckistan's efforts.

[Stefano Palmieri]

Nunavut supports Canuckistan's actions.

[HHAYD]

In Alberta and Saskatchewan:

Hundreds of peaceful protests to violent riots erupted as if they were coordinated. The uproar ranged from protesting against the occupation of the two provinces, blanket deportation of civilian and military officials, demanding a communist/socialist government, counter-protesting the demand for a government change, and etc. Many protesting and rioting mobs clashed with others that supported a different ideas, often resulting in injuries and death. Since the police and the military wasn't around, it would be up to whoever had their military in the region to stem the chaos.

The two provinces were experiencing similar to what was going on in Ontario due to a major root problem. Half of GLP population hated capitalism, and the other half hated socialism/communism. No amount of military force was going to halt the hatred, nevertheless would it be able to halt a civilian-led civil war without slaughtering most of the residents.

[Yawoo]

[quote name='Yawoo' timestamp='1283896639' post='2445744']
Alberta and Saskatchewan will revert to Louisiana-Atlantis protectorate should Canuckistan fall, same as it was should the G.L.S. fall. That being said, the land that was seceded to the G.L.S. which reaches the Hudson Bay is hereby revoked, and the land reverts to a Louisiana-Atlantis protectorate should Canuckistan not wish to incorporate the region into their country.
[/quote]

"Since Canuckistan has not responded to our announcement, the land that was seceded to the G.L.S. above Louisianan Manitoba, and with access to the Hudson Bay is now, once more, a protectorate of Louisiana and Atlantis. Troops from Louisianan Manitoba will be crossing over the border momentarily and will be securing the territory from instability, which seems to be taking over in other areas of former G.L.S. presence."

Classified:

The Louisianan Embargo against the territory above Louisianan Manitoba was ended. The two Louisiana carrier battlegroups transitioned from the role of embargo enforces, to protectors of Louisianan property. 5,000 soldiers from Manitoba would load into MRAPs and APCs to cross over the border. Air security would be provided from the carriers in the Hudson. Little to no resistance was expected, never the less, the soldiers, sailors and airmen would be on high alert.

[Sal Paradise]

[quote name='Yawoo' timestamp='1284234872' post='2450086']
"Since Canuckistan has not responded to our announcement, the land that was seceded to the G.L.S. above Louisianan Manitoba, and with access to the Hudson Bay is now, once more, a protectorate of Louisiana and Atlantis. Troops from Louisianan Manitoba will be crossing over the border momentarily and will be securing the territory from instability, which seems to be taking over in other areas of former G.L.S. presence."[/quote]


To clarify our position, Canuckistan will be returning all territory above the 60th parallel to its previous owners. Louisiana has already taken the initiative and taken the land back. After confirmation from Blue Heaven, the small security contingent left in the territory will withdraw back to Saskatchewan.

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OOC: I was waiting on HHAYD's reaction before I responded to anything in this thread. Figured he deserved a chance to make a move before I continued with anything.

Will respond more later.

[kitex]

[b]Private to Canuckistan

[/b]We accept your offer of returning the land to us. It will be reincorporated into Twilight Province.

- John Romella (Blue Heaven Minister of Foreign Affairs)

[HHAYD]

[quote name='Yawoo' timestamp='1284234872' post='2450086']
Classified:

The Louisianan Embargo against the territory above Louisianan Manitoba was ended. The two Louisiana carrier battlegroups transitioned from the role of embargo enforces, to protectors of Louisianan property. 5,000 soldiers from Manitoba would load into MRAPs and APCs to cross over the border. Air security would be provided from the carriers in the Hudson. Little to no resistance was expected, never the less, the soldiers, sailors and airmen would be on high alert.
[/quote]
If they enter the harbor, they would notice several burning buildings, and a miniature civil war. One side wanted the area to return to GLP, the other side wanted a completely new government in the area. Civilian firearms (machine pistols, semi-automatic pistols, submachine guns, pump action shotguns, and occasional assault rifles) were heard being fired. Residents that had no interest in the fighting had already fled. No police or military force was available, they were dismantled by Canuckistan.

Edited September 11, 2010 by HHAYD

[Sal Paradise]

[quote name='HHAYD' timestamp='1284234444' post='2450077']
In Alberta and Saskatchewan:

Hundreds of peaceful protests to violent riots erupted as if they were coordinated. The uproar ranged from protesting against the occupation of the two provinces, blanket deportation of civilian and military officials, demanding a communist/socialist government, counter-protesting the demand for a government change, and etc. Many protesting and rioting mobs clashed with others that supported a different ideas, often resulting in injuries and death. Since the police and the military wasn't around, it would be up to whoever had their military in the region to stem the chaos.

The two provinces were experiencing similar to what was going on in Ontario due to a major root problem. Half of GLP population hated capitalism, and the other half hated socialism/communism. No amount of military force was going to halt the hatred, nevertheless would it be able to halt a civilian-led civil war without slaughtering most of the residents.
[/quote]

[b]Classified [/b]
The chaos and the rioting only confirmed the government's long held suspicions of the Great Lake Provinces. No matter how many times the GLP government changed, the nation was always belligerent and unstable. The instability of the GLP government was a manifestation of the instability of its people. The government somehow channeled that instability into a semi-working state. With the GLP government gone in Alberta and Saskatchewan, the people turned to lunacy. Under the Canuckistan administration, the people would have to be re-educated.

Fortunately, due to Canuckistan's own crisis nearly a year ago, the nation was still in a state of emergency and under martial law. While the military government tried to uphold the rights given to the people under the constitution, the constitution was still technically suspended. The people had accepted the government crackdown on terrorists, anarchists and other subversives in Canuckistan proper, and rejoiced at how quickly the nation recovered from the anarchy. They would surely support a similar pacification of seditious forces in the AlberSask territory.

Canuckistan forces, already positioned in every major city and community in provinces, immediately took to suppressing the rioters. Peaceful protesters were allowed to continue, but were closely watched. Any hint of violence immediately led to a crackdown and mass arrests. Many were released, but those identified as leaders or instigators were held indefinitely, though this lenient policy would soon change.

The military police showed restraint with their weaponry, but zeal in its application. Tear gas, rubber bullets, sonic and water cannons were used prodigiously but non-lethally. There would no doubt be injuries and the occasional death due to complications, but in the eyes of the military, rioting during the state of emergency was treason and the lives of all traitors were forfeit. They were lucky the military didn't run them over in tanks.

[b]Announcement to the people of Alberta and Saskatchewan[/b]

Due to widespread rioting in Alberta and Saskatchewan, plans to incorporate your institutions into the Canuckistan government and award citizenship to the population have changed.

Under the State of Emergency Act, passed through the National Assembly last year during the solar flare crisis, all rioting and calls for the overthrow of the government are considered potential acts of treason. Any person arrested for such behaviour will be made to immediately make their choice between Canuckistan citizenship and GLP citizenship. Those choosing Canuckistan citizenship will be charged with treason, tried under an emergency military tribunal and, if found guilty, punished appropriately. Those choosing GLP citizenship will be immediately deported.

All citizens are advised to stay away from all demonstrations, peaceful or otherwise. The criminals, subversives and terrorists perpetrating these acts of violence have no regard for life. They will murder anyone in the street and justify their behaviour with the twisted logic of their ideologies.

The GLP tyranny has ended, but the threat of violence, communist slavery and anarchy remain very real. We ask that all loyal Canuckistan citizens stand and co-operate with the Canuckistan Armed Forces, so that together we may finally bring peace and liberty to Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Brigadier General Gordon H. Biddiscombe
Provisional Governor of Alberta and Saskatchewan

Edited September 11, 2010 by Sal Paradise

[HHAYD]

[quote name='Sal Paradise' timestamp='1284241426' post='2450182']
[b]Classified [/b]
The chaos and the rioting only confirmed the government's long held suspicions of the Great Lake Provinces. No matter how many times the GLP government changed, the nation was always belligerent and unstable. The instability of the GLP government was a manifestation of the instability of its people. The government channeled that instability into a semi-working state. With the GLP government gone in Alberta and Saskatchewan, the people turned to lunacy. Under the Canuckistan administration, the people would have to be re-educated.

Fortunately, due to Canuckistan's own crisis nearly a year ago, the nation was still in a state of emergency and under martial law. While the military government tried to uphold the rights given to the people under the constitution, the constitution was still technically suspended. The people had accepted the government crackdown on terrorists, anarchists and other subversives in Canuckistan proper, and rejoiced at how quickly the nation recovered from the anarchy. They would surely support a similar pacification of seditious forces in the AlbaSask territory.

Canuckistan forces, already positioned in every major city and community in provinces, immediately took to suppressing the rioters. Peaceful protesters were allowed to continue, but were closely watched. Any hint of violence immediately led to a crackdown and mass arrests. Many were released, but those identified as leaders or instigators were held indefinitely, though this lenient policy would soon change.

The military police showed restraint with their weaponry, but zeal in its application. Tear gas, rubber bullets, sonic and water cannons were used prodigiously but non-lethally. There would no doubt be injuries and the occasional death due to complications, but in the eyes of the military, rioting during the state of emergency was treason and the lives of all traitors were forfeit. They were lucky the military didn't run them over in tanks.
[/quote]
Canuckistan's hopes of calming the area would be near impossible. Many residents had moved from GLP into the region and did not like foreign occupiers. Reeducation would not work without favoring one side given the fact that the GLP population are basically evenly split water and oil, they do not mix well. If that is done, then the chaos would further intensify.

And they have yet to see FEO and the severity of the situation GLP warned would happen, until now...
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In Saskatoon, capital city of Saskatchewan:

Riots had died down for a few hours, only to restart again. This time a few hundred residents were equipped with weapons given from BH when BH was backing the FEO and other weapons that were allowed to be owned by citizens (when GLP ruled the area). Almost all of them had basic military training thanks to GLP's mandatory military training program that was enacted last year.

They had no intention of defeating the enemy. They planned on wearing the enemy's morale down and force them to leave.
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OOC: Edited to fix some stuff.

Edited September 11, 2010 by HHAYD

[kitex]

[quote name='HHAYD' timestamp='1284242465' post='2450202']
Canuckistan's hopes of calming the area would be near impossible. Many residents had moved from GLP into the region and did not like foreign occupiers. Reeducation would not work without favoring one side given the fact that the GLP population are basically evenly split water and oil, they do not mix well. If that is done, then the chaos would further intensify.

And they have yet to see FEO and the severity of the situation GLP warned would happen, until now...
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In Saskatoon, capital city of Saskatchewan:

Riots had died down for a few hours, only to restart again. This time a few hundred residents were equipped with weapons given from BH when BH was backing the FEO and other weapons that were allowed to be owned by citizens (when GLP ruled the area). Almost all of them had basic military training thanks to GLP's mandatory military training program that was enacted last year.

They had no intention of defeating the enemy. They planned on wearing the enemy's morale down and force them to leave.
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OOC: Edited to fix some stuff.
[/quote]

OOC: How can they have my weaponry when I gave it to the FEO?

[HHAYD]

[quote name='kitex' timestamp='1284248537' post='2450278']
OOC: How can they have my weaponry when I gave it to the FEO?
[/quote]
OOC: Some of them are FEO members.

[Sal Paradise]

[b]Classified[/b]

During the investigation, General Ganoush had received several reports from commanders in the field of waning morale. "The men," reported one Colonel, "are suffering from the after effects of a severely unsatisfying case of blue balls." Expecting the GLP would put up a fight, the military had been eager to enter the territory. But months of "can I see some ID" and "move along ma'am" had drained the soldiers of energy. This was a major concern for Ganoush, but when the riots broke out, the fighting spirit finally returned. After a few days of putting down small demonstrations and riots with non-lethal methods, soldier were once again eager to engage the enemy in a real fight.

For the men stationed near Saskatoon, that fight had finally come. Rather than just throwing bricks into store windows, the rioters in Saskatoon were armed. There was no PR expectation to go easy on them.

Colonel Zipporah Sontag had been put in charge of Saskatoon with 7000 men and 70 tanks, though many more were in the area as part of the second, larger force that had been sent to Saskatchewan to disarm the GLP military. Colonel Sontag was a staunch militarist. Although the triuvirate always spoke of restoring the civilian government to Canuckistan, she believed in the benevolent rule of a paternal military state. The risk of communist take over was too great, especially now with these prairie barbarians rioting all over the country. She read her history. She knew the birthplace of Canadian socialism.

Under Sontag's order, the air force sent reconnaissance drones into the city to monitor the rioters movements and fighter jets to make intimidating low altitude flybys. The main Saskatoon force closed off streets around the rioters and slowly moved in to pin them down, at the pace of the tanks leading the advance. As the Canuckistan forces crawled through the streets, teams of soldiers would rush into nearby buildings to rout out any hiding dissidents. When they neared a group of rioters, sonic cannons were used to push them further into the city, if they withstood the ear shattering blare of the cannon, they would be fired upon. The better armed groups slowed down the advance noticeably, but the tanks kept rolling.

When the Canuckistan forces surrounded the rioters into small enough pockets, the tanks and soldiers would open fire. Larger spaces would have air strikes called in. No warning or chance of surrender was given. The military had done much worse in Sipatau, completely leveling an anarchist-controlled section of the city. Ultimately, the amount of damage done to the city was immaterial to the military. If Sontag had higher authority, she would have had the place carpet bombed. Better dead than red.


edit: that should have said better dead than red.

Edited September 12, 2010 by Sal Paradise

[Sal Paradise]

OOC:

[quote name='HHAYD' timestamp='1284248784' post='2450285']
OOC: Some of them are FEO members.
[/quote]

Not many of them.

[quote name='HHAYD' timestamp='1282700958' post='2430225']
OOC: You will only find a few dozen FEO members, most of them, about 500, had marched to the President House in Toronto to kill the president.

And none of the 500 members will come back out in one piece without being behind the bars.
[/quote]

[HHAYD]

OOC:

Just consider most of them as ordinary guerrilla fighters with civilian weapons.

[HHAYD]

[quote name='Sal Paradise' timestamp='1284257949' post='2450442']
[b]Classified[/b]

During the investigation, General Ganoush had received several reports from commanders in the field of waning morale. "The men," reported one Colonel, "are suffering from the after effects of a severely unsatisfying case of blue balls." Expecting the GLP would put up a fight, the military had been eager to enter the territory. But months of "can I see some ID" and "move along ma'am" had drained the soldiers of energy. This was a major concern for Ganoush, but when the riots broke out, the fighting spirit finally returned. After a few days of putting down small demonstrations and riots with non-lethal methods, soldier were once again eager to engage the enemy in a real fight.

For the men stationed near Saskatoon, that fight had finally come. Rather than just throwing bricks into store windows, the rioters in Saskatoon were armed. There was no PR expectation to go easy on them.

Colonel Zipporah Sontag had been put in charge of Saskatoon with 7000 men and 70 tanks, though many more were in the area as part of the second, larger force that had been sent to Saskatchewan to disarm the GLP military. Colonel Sontag was a staunch militarist. Although the triuvirate always spoke of restoring the civilian government to Canuckistan, she believed in the benevolent rule of a paternal military state. The risk of communist take over was too great, especially now with these prairie barbarians rioting all over the country. She read her history. She knew the birthplace of Canadian socialism.

Under Sontag's order, the air force sent reconnaissance drones into the city to monitor the rioters movements and fighter jets to make intimidating low altitude flybys. The main Saskatoon force closed off streets around the rioters and slowly moved in to pin them down, at the pace of the tanks leading the advance. As the Canuckistan forces crawled through the streets, teams of soldiers would rush into nearby buildings to rout out any hiding dissidents. When they neared a group of rioters, sonic cannons were used to push them further into the city, if they withstood the ear shattering blare of the cannon, they would be fired upon. The better armed groups slowed down the advance noticeably, but the tanks kept rolling.

When the Canuckistan forces surrounded the rioters into small enough pockets, the tanks and soldiers would open fire. Larger spaces would have air strikes called in. No warning or chance of surrender was given. The military had done much worse in Sipatau, completely leveling an anarchist-controlled section of the city. Ultimately, the amount of damage done to the city was immaterial to the military. If Sontag had higher authority, she would have had the place carpet bombed. Better red than dead.
[/quote]
After the carnage, the riots quieted down, though peaceful protests still raged.

FEO realized that Canuckistan wouldn't care if they killed the entire population, and with insufficient weapons, they decided to do something more logical.

Pull TUO's stunt, aka, gaining power legally via elections. They would undermine Canuckistan once when it returns to full democracy with political powers just like what TUO did to GLS.

[Sal Paradise]

In Canuckistan military circles, Colonel Sontag was praised for her expert handling of the Saskatoon insurgency, or as military propagandists would later call it, the Battle of Saskatoon. The riotous savages of Canuckistan's new prairie territories needed the show of strength to shock them back into reality. This most commanders believed. But Sontag's genius was in the restraint she had shown. While many expected a repeat of the bombing of Sipatau, Sontag was compassionate and merciful. No doubt the operation would win both the people's love and fear.

Sontag would have preferred the whole city leveled, and for that matter the rest of the country purged of the red menace. But she embraced her public persona as an angel of both justice and mercy. She declined a promotion to Brigadier General. Canucks were bursting with love and praise. "How humble she is!" they would say; "Sontag for President!" became the newest slogan. The triumvirate didn't feel threatened by Sontag's new public fame. On the contrary, public approval of the military government had never been higher. With the liberation of Alberta and Saskatchewan, the quelling of the rebellion, and the re-building of national infrastructure after the solar flare, old critics and those that wanted a future in the politics of a restored civilian government soon became converts. The only detractors were radicals, who were routinely harassed by the government anyway.

After the Battle of Saskatoon, the government of the AlberSask territory began a project to rebuild the city and invest in industry and infrastructure in the new region. A strong military presence was maintained, and military police began conducting routine searches of all households and buildings in the region. The civilian possession of firearms was temporarily banned. A month long amnesty was given for people to turn in their firearms. Anyone who surrendered a weapon would have it cataloged and returned to them at a yet to be determined date. Anyone found with a firearm after the amnesty would be fined and have their weapon permanently confiscated.