Commentary
In just a few weeks, Santa and his reindeer will cross the North Pole and fly through the Canadian Arctic. And they may well not be alone, though the Canadian Armed Forces proudly tracking the sleigh could easily miss the other stuff. So at the risk of asking that more be loaded into his sack than can reasonably be delivered, I request a working military for Christmas.
Some people may of course dismiss the jolly old elf as, shall we say, a somewhat romanticized version of the spirit of Christmas. Or disparage the latter entirely. But the other intruders, especially those serving the Kremlin, not Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men, are no invention. Nor is our complete incapacity to do anything about them….