We at ‘Notes from The North’ came across two articles on the BBC website, “Is North America’s Arctic vulnerable to Russia‘ and ‘ Trudeau strikes deal to stay in power until 2025’. The connection between these two stories is that until 2025 nothing of value is going to take place in Canada’s north. At least nothing related to the defence of the country. Not that anything related to the defence of the country will happen while Trudeau is Prime Minister. Trudeau’s single objective is to stay in power and be the champion of far left, global warming activists and women’s rights activists. Not that both of these issues aren’t important and if they were dealt with as important issues and not idealogical imperatives, they would merit support. But used as photo ops and catch phrases in speeches, they are only dog whistles to the Liberal party believers. In the meantime Trudeau has no real connection with the majority of Canadians, nor does he care at all about national defence threats. Meanwhile, Putin’s expansionist tactics and obvious ambitions to rebuild the Soviet Union are on clear display for the world (except for Trudeau) to see. While all other western countries are strengthening their defensive capabilities, we have no real aid left to help Ukraine? Canada instead of ramping up our defence systems, is only now, after ten years of meetings on the subject, engaging in discussions around potentially buying new fighter planes from the US. And they are the wrong planes in our opinion, because of their huge cost and marginal capability, but we have other posts on that subject. We also have a post describing a plan to develop Canada’s north.
Churchill Manitoba – the Key to Canada’s northern development
So! in conclusion, Canada will have three more years with no defence development in our north, more deterioration of our military and more grandstanding on the world stage about how Canada is a utopia of social values. We wonder how Trudeau will react when he finds a few thousand Russian troops camped on Canada’s north coast.
