The federal government has unveiled its new national security strategy, which calls for Canada to prepare for war and other worst-case scenarios.
The new strategy, “The Plan for a Stronger Canada – National Security for Canadians,” is the country’s first national security policy since 2004. The 13-page document says Canada faces a range of global threats, including great power rivalries, rising authoritarianism, emerging artificial intelligence technologies, climate change, and pandemics.
“Once distant threats are now proximate and immediate. The global order that long protected our sovereignty has ruptured. We are prepared to protect Canada’s sovereignty, and when it is threatened, we will act,” the document reads….