John Ivison: The chief of the defense staff appeared at the public safety and national security committee on Parliament Hill last Thursday and warned in the starkest terms possible that dark forces are gathering in a “chaotic and dangerous world” and that Canada’s geographic isolation is no longer a viable defense against them. Russia and China already “consider themselves to be at war with the West,” he said. They are interested, not just in “regime survival, but in regime expansion.”
But for all the Liberal government’s rhetoric about defending the rules-based order, there are few signs that the prime minister, his cabinet or his senior advisers are seized by the sense that the lights may go out in democracies around the world.
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Eyre was frank that Canada is not ready for this struggle, despite its efforts at “reconstitution,” and is currently short about 10,000 Forces personnel.
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