Commentary
When an audience applauded him, Plutarch tells us, the Athenian statesman Phocion asked a friend whether he had just said something foolish. Where will we find his like today?
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, some in-house Privy Council research found that Canadians massively oppose hiking defence spending to 5 percent of GDP. Arguably, the PCO should have let this sleeping dog lie unless they had some plan for dealing with a conflict between what they were resolved to do and what people wanted them to do. But now that it’s awake, how shall we feed it?
The Carney administration seems determined that it will swallow a big military pill, which I applaud for two reasons. First, every country has an army in it, so the real choice is between yours and someone else’s. Second, our closest and indispensable, if sometimes disquieting, American ally has utterly had it with Canada and other Western nations free-riding on security….