Trudeau the First's Disastrous Defence Policy Reincarnated
Pierre Eliot Trudeau’s disastrous approach to Defence policy and the Canadian Armed Forces is alive and well more than three decades later. Yesterday, I was reviewing a history of Prime Minister, Pierre Elliot Trudeau’s, antipathy for the Canadian Armed Forces through books surveying the period including In Retreat, The Disarming of Canada, True North Not Strong and Free. “The apple does not fall far from the tree,” as the old saying goes. Last week the Trudeau Liberals tabl
Trudeau's Purchase of Second Tier F-18 Super Hornets Means Strategic Irrelevance in Future NORAD
The Trudeau government has just taken the next step in rendering Canada’s Royal Canadian Air Force irrelevant in both NORAD and in NATO. They say that the apple does not fall far from the tree and he is carrying on with the disarmament of Canada just like his father before him. When a government makes an announcement during the Christmas, March, or a Summer Break and the House is not sitting, you can bet that it is a real ‘stinker’ and they want to avoid scrutiny. I was once
Trudeau on a collision course with Trump on security?
The Trudeau liberal government seems increasingly inclined to place Canada on a collision course with the Trump administration on security issues. During the Presidential election campaign, then candidate, Donald J. Trump, warned that NATO was an obsolete organization and that NATO countries had to start paying their fair share or the U.S. would reconsider its commitment to the alliance. The U.S. currently pays 70 percent of alliance shared costs and only four countries other
Afghanistan Changed Canadians: Trudeau Must Understand This.
Mr. Trudeau and his Liberal government are going to learn the hard way that civil-military relations do matter in Canada, and that they matter to Canadians of all political stripe. The Trudeau government came to power on the promise of doing things differently in Ottawa. Usually, governments try in the first year or so, to live up to their key election campaign promises, but not this one. The government came to power on greater transparency, and to illustrate the narrative, p
United States sending Vladimir Putin and Russia a message, “watch your step.”
Observers of President Trump on Russia need to look past the President’s comments and rhetoric and review his administration’s actions, subtle or otherwise. The Trump administration has condemned Russia at the United Nations, demanded return of the Crimea and withdrawal from Ukraine, warned that sanctions will be maintain on Russia until they live up to their obligations, forward deployed American forces to Central Europe, and conducted a recent Inter-Continental Ballistic Mi
Mr. Trudeau, Canada needs F-35s to deter Russian nuclear warfighting strategy
Mr. Trudeau, what do you want intercepting and deterring nuclear-armed Russian strategic bombers in the Canadian North? A fifth-generation fighter aircraft in the F-35, loaded with sensors, that can operate with our American, Danish and Norwegian allies, and can drop anything in the sky, or F-18 Super Hornets rapidly approaching their best before date? In Russian war fighting nuclear doctrine that escalates to the use of nuclear weapons, to de-escalate from a war or pending
