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Originally Posted by Azure
I don't think US military members would be carrying loaded rifles either in similar circumstances.
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I don't really think that they would want them participating in something that civillian agencies are suppossed to do. Ie protecting parliment and exhanging fire with terrorists.
In the US its not really legal as long as Posse Comitatus which doesn't allow the US to use the Military to enforce laws, with the exception of the national guard and the coast guard.
That's why you don't see the military involved in domestic terror investigations.
Canada doesn't really have Posse Comotatus, however if the government wants the military to participate in civilian law enforcement that has to be amended by the government.
However like the U.S. the military can provide its own armed security at its own facilities and at government facilities at the request of the Federal Government. Canada can also use the Military to protect persons on the request of the government.
But the Military isn't going to put an armed guard at a war memorial or any other public sector unless something like the War Measures Act is enacted.