How the tune has changed!
Not so long ago, the federal government’s defence critics were decrying its unjustified hawkishness in a demonstrably ever more peaceful world. Now the criticism is that with Putin in Ukraine and IS in Syria and Iraq, we are embarrassing ourselves by not being able to contribute to any serious military response.
As I argue in my latest column for the Ottawa Citizen and other Postmedia dailies, this just goes to show that we can’t base military procurement on the transitory circumstances of the moment, but on a sober assessment of Canada’s interests and what an uncertain future in a dangerous world may bring.
