Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is selling Canada’s military short, according to former generals who expressed surprise at comments she made this week.
On Tuesday, Joly said Canada will continue working with international partners in helping protect Ukraine through aid and diplomacy, but suggested that was the limit of our capabilities.
“Canada is not a nuclear power, it is not a military power,” she told CTV Power Play host Evan Solomon. “We’re a middle-sized power and what we’re good at is convening and making sure that diplomacy is happening, and meanwhile convincing other countries to do more.”
Retired Maj.-Gen. David Fraser did not share the minister’s assessment. “As a proud Canadian, I think we are far more than what she says we are,” he said. “I think the 40,000 Canadians that served in Afghanistan, the 158 soldiers who were killed over there and their families might have something more to say than what our minister is saying.”
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