By Arms Embargo Now Coalition, January 26, 2026
Following the fatal shooting of another civilian by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minneapolis Friday morning, the Arms Embargo Now Coalition is releasing new information raising urgent questions about Canada’s arms-export regime.
Images and video obtained by the coalition show Canadian-manufactured Roshel armoured vehicles deployed by ICE during the operation in which the killing occurred.
This deployment comes just weeks after CBC reported that ICE placed a rush order for dozens of Roshel armoured vehicles, fast-tracked for delivery and explicitly intended for use in U.S. urban enforcement operations.
“It is outrageous that a Canadian weapons company was able to send a rush order of armoured vehicles to ICE while it continues to brazenly kidnap and murder people on the streets of Minneapolis and across the country,” said Rachel Small, World BEYOND War Canada Organizer and spokesperson for the Arms Embargo Now Coalition. “There is absolutely no justification for Canada to approve such an order – but this is exactly how Canada’s arms exports to the U.S. work. If Canada claims to not support this escalating campaign of terror, it must stop freely arming it.”
These armoured vehicles were not incidental to the deadly incident in Minneapolis this morning. They are ICE assets, purpose-built for urban operations, and are now being used in heavily militarized policing operations that are resulting in civilian deaths and kidnappings.
Roshel is the same company that has spent the past year seeking export permits to send armoured vehicles directly to Israel, and whose Brampton facility has been repeatedly picketed and blockaded by workers, community members, and pro-Palestine organisers opposing its role in the arms trade.
For Canadian media and policymakers, this is not a U.S. story alone; this is a glaring example of Canadian complicity.
Roshel, an armoured-vehicle manufacturer headquartered in Brampton, Ontario, has sold these vehicles directly to ICE. Under Canada’s current export framework, military and police equipment destined for the United States is largely exempt from meaningful export permits, human-rights risk assessments, or end-use scrutiny.
As a result, Canadian-made armoured vehicles are now being deployed in domestic U.S. enforcement operations that are ending lives without public transparency, parliamentary oversight, or legal safeguards.
“This is the same export regime that has allowed Canadian weapons and components to flow through the United States and into Israel’s assault on Gaza,” said Haneen Ismail of the Palestinian Youth Movement. “From the streets of Minneapolis to the besieged neighborhood of Palestine, the machinery of our repression is manufactured in the same factories. Canadian-made war machines like the Roshel Senator, exported through the ‘U.S. loophole’ with zero accountability, are being weaponized to terrorize our communities.”
While Palestinians in Gaza are being killed by weapons systems enabled through U.S. and allied supply chains, Canadian-manufactured military equipment is now being used by ICE in urban neighbourhoods, against civilians, in full view of the public.
Different geography. Same loopholes. Same outcome.
Background: The No More Loopholes Act
The coalition is renewing its call for Parliament to immediately advance Bill C-233, the No More Loopholes Act, a Private Member’s Bill that would reform Canada’s Export and Import Permits Act.
If passed, the bill would:
- End automatic exemptions for U.S.-bound military and police exports
- Require human-rights risk assessments for all arms exports
- Apply export controls to parts, components, and finished systems
- Mandate transparency and reporting to Parliament
The legislation was introduced specifically to address the “U.S. loophole,” the same loophole that allows Canadian weapons to reach Gaza via U.S. supply chains, without any tracking or oversight, and that now allows Canadian armoured vehicles to be used by ICE in deadly domestic operations.
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