i realize this is probably hot air. but the idea that iran would attack canada is a laughable proposition that anybody with a cursory understanding of the country would not take seriously. if anything materializes, it is clear from the start that it is staged for the upcoming 2015 election cycle. and, this government in power is not an honest one, so it is not in any way beneath them.

i would not expect that canadians would respond violently or with a desire for vengeance. canadians are isolationists. i expect canadians would be thrust into a crisis on national identity that would more stringently reject the more assertive tone the sitting government has been pushing out of us.

years before 9/11, dubya famously claimed he wasn't a nation builder. indeed, he wasn't. canadians are nation builders, not soldiers. this would be a total shot to the foot.

....which is why i'm almost welcoming it. ottawa could lose a church or two, i just hope nobody gets hurt.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/06/16/irans-anti-canada-rhetoric-has-officials-on-guard-for-possible-ottawa-area-terror-attacks/