Canadians need to worry more about defence and security
Richard Fadden is a former national security adviser to the prime minister and former deputy minister of national defence.
It is beyond reasonable debate that the international environment in which Canada operates is changing in ways that are largely negative. The rise of an increasingly assertive China, Russia acting in total disregard of international law, climate change, and the rise of extremism are but a few examples of how our environment, which many long perceived as comfortable and largely unchanging, has shifted.
Of course, we have a defence and security apparatus – after all, we are not Costa Rica – but it is minimal given our membership in the G7, NATO and NORAD. We do what is absolutely the minimum we can get away with, given our treaty obligations – witness how long it has taken us to order a relatively small number of F-35 fighter jets. Other defence requirements, such as base modernization and our NORAD commitments, also tend to be low priorities.
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