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A number of things caught my eyes over the past couple of days. They are all related to this … … by David Parkins in the Globe and Mail. Why are the knives out for Erin O’Toole? Well, the Globe and Mail‘s editorial board opines that it’s because he made the right strategic choices. Specifically,Continue reading “Daggers drawn”

I think that, by negotiating the release of Canadian hostages Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor as part of the deferred prosecution agreement for Huawei’s golden girl Meng Wanzhou, United States President Joe Biden just sent a message. I think that message was to many countries. First, he reminded China that he wants peaceful relations; notContinue reading “Another message”

So, a report in Politico says that David Cohen, President Joe Biden’s choice to be the next American ambassador to Ottawa, told the Senate committee reviewing his appointment that “the U.S. is waiting for Justin Trudeau’s long-promised update to Canada’s China policy … [because it, an acceptable, to the USA, Canadian policy towards China is]Continue reading “A warning shot”

So, three things caught my eye on this day after the election: First, an old friend of mine quipped, on a military social media site, something like: “This was the most expensive cabinet shuffle in Canadians history;” Then, someone else quipped, also on social media, about the recently revealed AUKUS tripartite agreement that “Canada isn’tContinue reading “One step sideways, two steps back”

I have one, simple message for all those Canadians who will vote on Monday: (Thanks to Sharon Tracy for this image.) It must be quite clear to all but the most obtuse TruAnon true believers that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is ethically, intellectually and morally unfit for any leadership role, no matter how junior, anywhere,Continue reading “A simple message”

So, Steven Chase and Robert Fife say, in the Globe and Mail, that “The Canadian government was surprised this week by the announcement of a new security pact between the United States, Britain and Australia, one that excluded Canada and is aimed at confronting China’s growing military and political influence in the Indo-Pacific region, accordingContinue reading “Left out (3). The decline and fall of the Canadian dream”

Following on from yesterday, I see, in the Globe and Mail, that “The United States, United Kingdom and Australia are forging a new defence pact meant to contain the military might of China in the Indo-Pacific … and] … The pact, dubbed AUKUS after the three countries’ initials, does not include Canada, raising the prospectContinue reading “Left out (2). It’s worse than I imagined.”

This article in Politico really matters. It says that “President Joe Biden will announce a new working group with Britain and Australia to share advanced technologies in a thinly veiled bid to counter China, a White House official and a congressional staffer told POLITICO … [and] … The trio, which will be known by theContinue reading “Left out! Canada is no longer a serious country.”

This opinion piece by Jody Wilson-Raybould in the Globe and Mail has landed like a bombshell in the last 10 days of the 2021 election campaign. Prime. Minister Justin Trudeau, she says, asked her to lie. “He made it clear,” she writes, “that everyone in his office was telling the truth and that I, andContinue reading “Bombshell (2)”

There is a thoughtful article in Foreign Affairs by Professor Joshua Shifrinson and Dr Stephen Wertheim which suggests that: United States President Joe Biden is a foreign policy realist with a moderate, pragmatic, cautious but perhaps Jeffersonian point of view; and President Biden might want to retrench even further, to disentangle the USA from theContinue reading “Doing what’s needed to defend Canada (2)”