Commentary
Lt.-Gen. J.O. Michel Maisonneuve (retired) is a true Canadian patriot. But while he wore the uniform of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and led Canada’s French-language military university, he kept his mouth shut regarding what he was witnessing—not only regarding Canada’s sinking international reputation but about the sickness that had set in in so many areas of Canadian domestic life.
Maisonneuve joined the CAF in 1972, as an armoured officer. He graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada and was deployed in Cyprus, Bosnia, Kosovo, and assigned to the headquarters of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Later he was Assistant Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff in Ottawa and Chief of Staff of NATO’s Allied Command Transformation at Norfolk, Virginia. He left the military in 2007 to become academic director of Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean….