Blackwater trained Canadian troops
Defence spent more than $6M at controversial U.S. security firm. The National Defence Department has spent more than $6-million having its troops trained by the controversial Blackwater security company, whose own employees have been accused of needlessly killing civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, documents show. The department sent a succession of personnel to Blackwater's Moyock, N.C., training compound from 2005 to as recently as April 2009, some of them learning tactics for working in dangerous settings, records obtained through access-to-information legislation indicate. AntiWar: Canada’s ‘Whole Freaking Government’ Approach in Afghanistan.