The prescient warning would have been to get passports for yourself and your loved ones and to start working on an exit plan.

Fwiw I'm (also) Canadian and look at a lot of this with fear and horror; I'm just not sure simple firearm ownership is going to help most people.

Having a gunpowder-based weapon - that's the only sort that's going to be effective - isn't very useful on its own. You need to train, regularly, and have it accessible when you need it.

And...when that happens, it's too late. The other guys have bigger stuff. You're buying time, not freedom.

Mr. PG was robbed (he says never having actually visited Prince George).

It's mostly admin, not IT.

If you think the adminstrative bloat at UBC is mostly in IT, I suspect you are not tremendously connected to campus.