How Canada is helping ICE murder Minnesotans
Roshel, a manufacturer in Brampton, Ontario, is supplying ICE's campaign
ICE murdered another person today. His name was Alex Pretti. He was 37 years old, and he was a registered nurse who worked in intensive care for VA, helping veterans in Minneapolis. As his colleague Dimitri Drekonja told The Guardian, “he wanted to help people…he was a super nice, super helpful guy.”
And he died as he lived, trying to help people, protecting his neighbours from the fascist jackboot thugs called ICE. He directly confronted evil, unafraid of the personal cost that it would bring him. And now his flame has been extinguished, murdered by Yankee demons who hated that he proved there are still good people left in their nation.
I am not going to dignify ICE’s narrative by repeating it; every single thing they have said is a lie, and spending time refuting these lies would only spread them further. So let that be the beginning and end regarding the propaganda which ICE spews: every single thing ICE says is a lie, especially the things you think might be true.
That’s not the point of this column, though. I’m here to tell you how Canada helped murder Alex Pretti, and Renee Good, and every other person who wasn’t lucky enough to gain the attention of the international press. Because we in the “true north”, who claim moral superiority to the Yankees, are supplying ICE with the equipment they use to terrorize their nation.
Roshel, a military manufacturer, was founded in Brampton, Ontario by Roman Shimonov, a former Israeli soldier and military contractor in Israel, after moving to Canada in the 2010s. The primary “defence” solution offered by Roshel is the Senator Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC), using the civilian Ford F-550 truck as a base, and then heavily modifying it for military use.
Canadians have tooted our own horn a fair bit with regard to the Senator APC; after all, we’ve sent over 2,000 Senators to the Ukrainian government in support of their war effort against Russia, initially the normal APC variant, and then later the up-armoured MRAP variant for resistance against mine blasts.
Indeed, I have no complaints about supplying Ukraine with this kind of useful military equipment as they fight a defensive war, against an enemy whom openly seeks to annex their land through the use of force. The problem, however, is that the arms industry has a dirty secret: you are not selling your weapons solely to good people…or even primarily to good people.
And as events in Minnesota have just demonstrated to us, we are actually selling this military equipment to quite horrible people, whom are using it to terrorize the innocent. Not that this matters to Premier Doug Ford or Prime Minister Mark Carney, whom have provided either vocal or silent support.
On December 1st, 2025, British paper The Independent reported that ICE had earmarked USD$7.2 million for the purchase of 20 Senator units from Roshel, specifically the Senator ERV variant, rated for Level 2 mine blast protection under STANAG 4569, and CEN B7 ballistic protection, which means it can stop .50 calibre rounds fired at long distances from dedicated anti-materiel sniper rifles.
Simply put, while this is not a weapon itself, it is military equipment designed to move and protect armed troops, colloquially called a “battle taxi”. As such, APCs are covered under Group 2 of the Export Control List, specifically 2-6. which regulates ground vehicles.
However, because the destination is the United States, federal law exempts Roshel from needing a government export permit, as would normally be required of military equipment on the Export Control List. Doug Ford, for his part, called the news that Roshel would be supplying ICE “fantastic”, lavishing the company with effusive praise, uncaring that ICE is hauling people away to camps and murdering them in the streets.
Now, if Mark Carney wished to change the law to require an export permit, he could have worked with the NDP in Parliament to do so, but he’s shown no indication that he would have stopped the deal even if it did require an export permit. His silence in the past six weeks on these deliveries to ICE, and his government’s strict enforcement of the “Safe Third Country Act”, has sent the message that he will continue to materially support the Trump regime in all the worst ways.
And today? Video from the scene following the shooting features ICE reinforcements arriving in one of these Roshel Senator armoured personnel carriers, attempting to mow over rows of protestors, and kidnapping witnesses from the crime scene. Thankfully, one of those kidnapped witnesses was able to transmit the video evidence of the murder to Drop Site News, but she was still taken captive, potentially in one of Roshel’s Senators.
That, from start to finish, is the full story of how Canada is helping ICE murder people in Minnesota. This is the process in which APCs are sold by a Canadian company, with the tacit permission of the Canadian government, to help ICE terrorize the innocent people of the North Star State.
So, are you proud, Canada? Do you feel like your elbows are up, yet?
God damn us all. We’re fully complicit in the horrors.
Remember it’s not the gun that kills people, it’s the person behind the gun that does it.
As if we have complete control over how the equipment is being used when purchased by an ally. That the US is using the equipment on its own people after being purchased is supposed to make us complicit? When we sell equipment, do we ask how it will be used? Who it will be used against before deciding to finalize the purchase? Or do we have faith that the equipment will be used in the defence of their nation and the possible protection of ours as well? I’m sorry this equipment was used in this manner but to state Canada is complicit is a moral leap IMO.