Canada’s 2% Problem
11 July 2024 Prime Minister Trudeau is in Washington DC for the NATO summit this week where he and his team have been getting absolutely pummeled for Canada’s pathetic defence…
Anglo-French Elections: The Take Away
8 July 2024 This week witnessed elections on both sides of the Channel. Many on the center-left are (I think mistakenly) celebrating this as an electoral rejection of what they…
Canada’s recruitment failures are a self-induced problem
26 June 2024 Canadians have heard a lot about the CAF’s dwindling recruitment numbers. However, this is actually a wider problem plaguing all of our defence, national security, and foreign…
Canada: Time To Dig Deep for Ukraine…and for yourself
The war in Ukraine has entered its third year or tenth year, depending on how one looks at it. It has been ten years since the Russian annexation of Crimea…
I’m being forced to leave Canada and that should worry you
18 December 2023 In the past weeks we have all been confronted with the state of academia. In the US Congress, the presidents of MIT, Harvard, and Penn State were…
Canada is Not Ready for the 21st Century
5 December 2023 Canada is not ready for the world ahead. The military is underfunded and understaffed; the government does not have a foreign policy direction. Moreover, Canadian political discourse…
A Defence Hangover – Canada’s Liberal Party Convention and Policy Resolutions
9 May 2023 The 2023 Liberal Party convention has come and gone. Delegations from the provinces and the young Liberal party members descended upon Ottawa. Debauchery usually ensues. I remember…
A Year of Dithering: The War in Ukraine
28 February 2023 A year into the war in Ukraine and I am still left totally baffled by the utter stupidity of the ongoing “debate” occurring within NATO countries. I…
The cure to Canadian military woes could prove as destructive as the disease
7 June 2022 Those of our readers who follow Canadian military affairs will already be aware that for some time it has been becoming increasingly obvious that there are deeply…
The Government of Canada has no idea what it’s doing on Defence
29 March 2022 The news of the Russian invasion of Ukraine has garnered a fairly intense reaction in Canada, at least by Canadian standards as far as a foreign policy…