A tense exchange between the prime minister and China’s president and an explosion on the Polish-Ukraine border that put the world on edge this week form part of the backdrop for a marquee speech Defence Minister Anita Anand is poised to deliver Friday at the Halifax Security Forum.
Anand’s remarks will lay out her long-term view of Canada’s defence priorities as the government is in the midst of a defence policy review promised in the 2022 budget, but also as the country is facing pressure to increase the amount of time, money and attention it pays to security at home and abroad.
Canada’s ambassador to Ukraine told a Senate foreign affairs committee Thursday that the demands coming from Ukraine are clear.“You hear this from human rights activists, from mothers, from school teachers and from every single government official, no matter what their portfolio. They need the weapons.”
What was explicit in the eyes of some world leaders this week were China’s own warnings: a strained encounter between Trudeau and Chinese President Xi Jinping was parsed around the globe as evidence of “bully diplomacy” by China and the challenges world leaders face in standing up to it. One of Canada’s military activities in the area is Operation Projection, a naval presence in the Indo-Pacific region that, among other things, keeps tabs on compliance with sanctions against North Korea.
Much has been made by American leaders in recent weeks of the close Canada-U.S. relationship. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken praised Canada in his recent visit to Ottawa, as did Cohen in this week’s meeting with Anand.
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