When a plane carrying a head of government wanted by the International Criminal Court crossed Canadian skies without explanation or consequence, it raised a question older than any warrant: who truly governs a nation's territory? Canada's silence in the face of Benjamin Netanyahu's repeated overflights — whether born of quiet permission or quiet surrender — places the country at a crossroads between its stated commitments to international law and the political calculus of a complicated moment. Sovereignty, legal scholars remind us, does not end at the shoreline.