Source: Arms Embargo Now Coalition
As federal governments ignore popular demands for comprehensive arms embargoes, Canadian communities take enforcement into their own hands, joining international efforts to dismantle Elbit Systems’ global operations.
WHEN: Thursday, August 13, 2026
WHERE: At priority Elbit suppliers in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, and Newfoundland
WHO: Campaign representatives and local organizers available for broadcast and print interviews in English and French across all Canadian time zones.
VISUALS: Formal "Notice of Complicity" deliveries to corporate leadership, high-visibility street postering, overnight vigils, banner drops, and worker flyer distributions outside industrial parks.
CANADA — Tomorrow, grassroots organizations across Canada will execute a coordinated coast-to-coast Day of Action to "Put Elbit On Notice," targeting over 40 manufacturing facilities, technology firms, and logistics suppliers spanning every major industrial region and calling on them to cut their ties with Elbit Systems. The coordinated push marks a strategic turn in global anti-war organizing: where state authorities systematically refuse to enforce international law or honor popular demands for a comprehensive arms embargo, civil society is intervening directly at the point of production.
The Canadian campaign targets the secondary infrastructure of Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms manufacturer, responsible for producing the vast majority of the land forces hardware, munitions, and combat drones driving ongoing mass violence in Gaza, Lebanon, and across the region. While federal regulators hide behind dual-use loopholes and allow component pipelines to flow uninterrupted, local groups are deploying a decentralized strategy—adopting individual suppliers to render ongoing commercial ties with Elbit politically toxic, operationally inconvenient, and reputationally untenable.
This ground-up enforcement strategy has already established a clear proof-of-concept. Following targeted community outreach and direct warnings, major suppliers are breaking rank. Most recently, executive leadership at a Montréal-based Elbit supplier formally confirmed to campaign organizers that the firm has severed all ties with Elbit Systems and will accept no future orders. This follows previous victories, including Ottawa-based Calian GNSS halting satellite hardware exports to Elbit, as well as major financial divestments by institutions like Scotiabank under sustained public pressure.
Tomorrow’s nationwide mobilization connects Canadian factory gates directly to an escalating global wave of resistance against Elbit Systems, joining factory occupations, maritime supply disruptions, and corporate contract cancellations worldwide.
"When a government actively shields arms dealers and ignores the popular mandate to end complicity in genocide, the people must enforce the embargo themselves," said organizers with the Arms Embargo Now coalition. "Elbit Systems cannot function without a global network of secondary suppliers. As recent company withdrawals prove, direct community exposure leaves these firms with a stark choice: cut ties with Elbit or face total public accountability. Tomorrow, we scale that pressure across the country."