Coalition Trace · a Feline Union file OPEN

A country's part in a war is a list of chairs.

From June 2025 a Canadian colonel was director of the coalition air operations centre in Qatar, the floor that runs the air war for seventeen nations. Through that war and through a second one, the Government of Canada has said it did not participate. Both of those are the government's own words, eleven months apart. This file lays the floor out cell by cell, sets the two sentences side by side, and hands you the dial.

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01 The two sentences 0:00 / 8:53
01 · The two sentences

One government produced both of these.

The first was said the day after the United States struck three Iranian nuclear sites. The second was published thirteen months later in a routine departmental bulletin, and was not announced. Tap any underlined phrase to see what it reaches.

Said out loud · 22 June 2025

Canada , , and has no intention of participating in .

Minister of Foreign Affairs · record
Written down · 27 July 2026

Extraordinary leadership and diplomatic skill as during the Israel-Iran conflict, and enabling the from the Al Udeid Air Base, Doha, Qatar.

Meritorious Service Cross citation · record

Neither sentence is disputed here. The first is a claim about weapons and consultation. The second is a description of work. The rest of this file is the space between them.

02 · The floor

Nine functions. Somebody sat in every one of them.

An air operations centre is a building full of chairs, grouped into divisions. Pick a definition of participation and the floor recolours: dark cells fall inside that definition, pale cells fall outside. Tap any cell for what it does and what the record says about who was in it.

The dial · choose a definition of participation
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The colour is the definition talking, not this file. Choosing a standard is not a ruling, and the site issues none. The only standard on the list that has been applied to this specific post by the body holding the record is the first one.

03 · The cycle

Sunday's order was written on Thursday.

The floor runs a seventy two to ninety six hour cycle and holds three orders at once. Move the slider through June 2025 and watch what the room is doing on each day.

Air tasking cycle · June 2025
21 June 2025
12 JUN18 JUN23 JUN

    The bomber mission against the three nuclear sites on 22 June was flown from the continental United States under a closely held national chain, and no published record puts it in the theatre tasking order. What the cycle shows is the theatre air operation that ran around it, every day, for the whole war. It is also why not being consulted and the room running are answers to two different questions.

    04 · The ladder

    Nine rungs between a cabinet and a trigger.

    Non-participation is a claim about specific rungs. Read down and see which ones it reaches, and which ones nobody has spoken to.

    Rung seven is the one the whole question turns on, and it is the one with no record in either direction.

    05 · The register

    Every statement, dated, with what it leaves open.

    Two wars, twenty one entries. Tap an entry for the two columns: what it asserts, and what it does not reach.

    06 · What is not known

    Seven questions with answers in a filing cabinet.

    None of these is rhetorical. Each one names the document or the answer that would close it.

    07 · The record

    Twenty two sources, graded.

    Nothing on this page carries a status without naming at least one of these. The build refuses to run if that is ever false. Each entry shows how many claims rest on it.

    08 · Carry it

    Ten cards.

    Each one links back to the surface it came from.

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